[Allott (Robert, editor)] Wits Theater of the little World, first edition, title with fine woodcut device of cherubs sittings astride cornucopia and vines entwining a fish, with final errata f., occasional very light browning, cancel slip on 2B1 recto largely degraded, 2I4 with small hole touching text, errata f. with small portion of loss to upper corner, contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, some light discolouration, a very good copy, [Pforzheimer 1094; STC 382], small 8vo, by J. R. for N. L. & are to be sold at the west doore of Paules, 1599.

⁂ First edition of this Elizabethan prose "collection of the flowers of antiquities and histories", the issue with the dedication unsigned. With excerpts from works by Luther, Erasmus, Ovid, Augustine, Pertrach and Froissart among others.