The Historye of Italye. A booke exceding profitable to be red: because
it intreateth of the astate of many and dyuers common weales, how they
haue bene, and now be gouerned. _Imprinted at London in Fletestrete nere
to Saicnt_ [sic] _Dunstons Church by Thomas Marshe._ [Colophon adds]
_Anno Domini._ 1561.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7 × 5-1/8). S. 7. 1.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: A^4[bullet]^4A-3I^4, folios
numbered, except in sheet T which contains Table of Popes and of
which the last leaf is blank. Wanting A 4 of preliminary sheet (?
blank). Table of contents. Epistle dedicatory to Iohn Erle of
Warrewicke, signed by the author Wylliam Thomas and dated London
Sept. 20, 1549. Alphabetical table. 'Conclusion' at the end. Thomas
was clerk of the Council to Edward VI. Second edition, the first
having appeared in 1549.
Sinker 308. BM 1494.