Eight novels employed by English dramatic poets of the reign of Queen Elizabeth / originally published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and reprinted from a copy of that date in the Bodleian Library.

Title: Eight novels employed by English dramatic poets of the reign of Queen Elizabeth / originally published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and reprinted from a copy of that date in the Bodleian Library.
list of authors: Rich, Barnabe
Publisher: Shakespeare Society
Date: 1846
General Notes: Vol. IX, no. 1, in the L. C. set, with general t.-p.: Early prose and poetical tracts...vol. I. 1853.With reproduction of original t.-p.: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession: conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme, Gathered together...by Barnabe Riche...Imprinted at London, by Robart Walley, 1581. Ed. by John Payne Collier. Several of the tales are from Italian sources. The "Conclusion" contains a ninth story, Balthaser, similar to Machiavelli's Marriage of Belphegor. (From Omni); Bound in publisher's blind stamped brown cloth with Shakespeare's arms.
uri: Yes
list of editors: Collier, John Payne
Spatial Coverage: London
Identifier: PR288.L5 no.33
locator: Special Collections