A Mirrhor mete for all Mothers, Matrones, and Maidens, intituled the Mirrhor of Modestie, no lesse profitable and pleasant, then necessarie to bee read and practised. A prethie and pithie Dialogue also, betweene Mercurie and Vertue

About this book

8vo. pp. ii, 41. Signatures: a2 B-F4 G1. Reprint edited by John Payne Collier of a work originally published around 1580, and of which only two copies are recorded (British Library and Bodleian, the latter being the copy transcribed by H. S. Harper, on whose work Collier relied for his reprint). 2 copies of the reprint in this collection. The present copy is in green wrappers. The second is bound in Illustrations of Old English Literature. Edited by J. Payne Collier. Vol. I. London, Privately Printed, 1864-1865 (see Bib# 4117204_1 in this collection). See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, A122. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.