¦Flowres of Epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours
selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to
the expert readers of quicke capacitie: By Timothe Kendall, late of the
Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London.
Horatius.
Aut prodesse volunt, aut delectare poetæ,
Aut simul & iucunda, aut idonea dicere vitæ.
_Imprinted at London in Poules Churche-yarde, at the signe of the Brasen
Serpent, by Ihon Shepperd._ 1577.¦
=B. L.= 8^o (5-1/4 × 3-3/8). *. 7.
Collation: a^8A-S^8, folios numbered. Wanting all before A 1, also
P 1, containing title to Part ii. The first sheet (wanting)
contains titlepage with list of sources on verso; epistle
dedicatory to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, signed; address to
the reader; commendatory verses from W. Seymour, George Whetstones,
E. G., Abraham Fleminge, A. W., G. L. (2 copies, Latin). The
Epigrams begin with head-title on A1. 'Trifles by Timothie Kendall'
with separate title and fresh foliation. At the end, below the
colophon, appears a woodcut emblem with a couplet from Martial
(Epig. XIII. 77).
Sinker 544. BM 908.
KIT, _of Kingstone_ (_pseud._).
Westward for Smelts. Or, The Water-mans Fare of mad-merry Western
wenches, whose tongues albeit like Bell-clappers, they neuer leaue
Ringing, yet their Tales are sweet, and will much content you. Written
by Kinde Kit of Kingstone. [Woodcut.] _London, Printed for Iohn Trundle,
and are to be sold at his shop in Barbican, at the Signe of the
No-body._ 1620.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7-3/4 × 5-3/8). Q. 8. 4.
Collation: A-E^4F^2, unpaged. Address to the reader, signed.
Halliwell, who reprinted the collection for the Percy Society in
1848, from the present copy, supposed it to be unique. Another,
however, formerly in the Roxburgh, is now in the Huth collection.