The Paradice of Dainty Deuises. Containing sundry pithie precepts,
learned Counsailes and excellent Inuentions: right pleasant and
profitable for all estates Deuised and written for the most parte by M.
Edwardes, sometime of her Maiesties Chappell: the rest by sundry learned
Gentlemen both of Honor and Worship, whose names heer-after followe.
Whereunto is added sundry new Inuentions, very pleasant and delightfull.
_At London Printed by Edward Allde for Edward White dwelling at the
little North doore of Saint Paules Church, at the signe of the Gunne.
Anno._ 1596.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7-1/4 × 4-3/4). S. 8. 1.
Collation: A-L^4, unpaged. Wanting L 4 containing end of text and
colophon. On the verso of the titlepage are 'The names of those who
wrote these devices': Saint Bernard, E[dward Vere, Earl of]
O[xford], Lord Vaux the Elder, W. Hunnis, Iasper Haywood, F.
Kindlemarshe, D. Sande, M. Ylope. The collection went through many
editions; this is apparently the seventh, the first having appeared
in 1576.
Sinker 660. BM 519.