viii, [28] p. 23 cm

Signatures: A in six, B-C in fours

With facsimiles by H. Hart, M. A., Oxford, of upper portion of A1 recto (caption title, ornaments and beginning of text), C3 verso, C4 recto (ornaments), C4 verso (printer's mark of Johannes Rastell)

Original (Caption) title: A new cõmodye in englysh in maner Of an enterlude ryght elygant & full of craft of rethoryk / wherein is shewed & dyscrybyd as well the bewte & good propertes of women / as theyr vycys & euyll cõdiciõs / with a morall cõclusion & exhortacyon to vertew

"A partial rendering of the great Spanish dramatic novel Celestina ... reproduces the first four out of the twenty-one acts of the original, the conclusion is entirely different."

"The only known copy of this 'new cõmodye ...' sometimes known from the heading as the Beauty of women ... is preserved among Malone's books in the Bodleian library at Oxford."

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