The World
discovered;
In Essayes and
Characters.

[Here is inserted in MS.--"Written by John Earles
of Merton Coll."]

_Newly composed for the Northerne parts
of this Kingdome._

AT LONDON:
PRINTED BY W. S., FOR ED. BLOUNT.
1628.

[_Title-page of 3rd edition of 1628._]

Micro-cosmographie;

or,

A Peece of

The World

discovered;

In Essayes and

Characters.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM STANSBURY, FOR
ROBERT ALLOT, 1628.

[W. H. Allnutt, in a MS. note inserted in the Bodleian
copy of Arber's Reprint of the Characters, states
that Arber has mistaken the order of priority of the
three 1628 edd. Arber places the ed. with the above
title-page second, and that of which the title is copied
on p. 330, third. The second ed., called by Arber
the first, is not in the Bodleian.]

The last written page of the Durham MS. has by way of Colophon

Finis.

December anno Do
This 14th mini
day 1627.

"This little volume in calf binding, about 12mo size, is doubtless one of
those referred to by Ed. Blount in his address to the Reader. The MS. is
written in an exceedingly neat and small hand on the pages of the
previously bound book, with margin lines ruled in red. At the top of the
first page is written in a different hand, 'Edw. Blunt, Author.' The MS.
contains 46 Characters in all, and is free from some evident blunders in
the first printed copies, as if they had been done from dictation."

This MS. in the Durham Cathedral Library is entered in the catalogue (of
the Hunter MSS.) as "Characters by Edward Blunt," and dated "about 1636,"
the date _in the MS._ having been overlooked.

Dr. Fowler in _Notes and Queries_, Nov. 4th, 1871.

EARLE'S MICROCOSMOGRAPHY.

--------------------------------------+------+----------+-----+-------+--------
| | |Bliss| |
|Bliss,| Bliss, |Sale,|British|
EDITION. |1811 .| 1812-57. |1858.|Museum |Bodleian
--------------------------------------+------+----------+-----+-------+--------
"W. Stansby for Edward Blount,"[EV] | | | | |
1628(_a_) | No | Yes | Y