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Title-page of the Dec. 1588 edition of Lyly's Euphues and his England

John Lyly: Additional Sources




  Biographical
Biography - Francis Guinle
Biography - Literary Encyclopedia
Biography - Encyclopedia Britannica
Biography - William Alan Neilson
Biography - Charles Read Baskerville
Biographical passage - Cambridge History, &c.
Biography - Wikipedia


Perspectives
"Life of John Lyly," from The Complete Works (1902) by R. Warwick Bond - GB
John Lyly (1905) by John Dover Wilson - Google Books


The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
in 18 Volumes (1907–21).


Miscellaneous
Quotes from Lyly - Bartleby.com

Images
Facsimile of Autograph letter to Sir Robert Cecil, 1602-3. MS in Hatfield Library
Facsimile of Title-page of Euphues, editio princeps, Dec. 1578. British Museum
Title-page of Euphues (1587). Folger Library
Title-page of Euphues and his England (1580)
Title-page of Euphues and his England (1580)
Title-page of Euphues and his England (1588)
Title-page of Campaspe (1584)
Title-page of Sapho and Phao (1584)
Title-page of Pappe with an hatchet (1589). Folger Library
Title-page of A Whip for an Ape (1589)
Title-page of Endimion (1591)
Title-page of Midas (1591)
Title-page of Entertainments (1591)
Title-page of Gallathea (1592)
Title-page of Mother Bombie (1594)
Title-page of Mother Bombie (1598)
Title-page of The Woman in the Moone (1597)
Title-page of The Maydes Metamorphosis (1600)
Title-page of Loues Metamorphosis (1601)




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Images of London:
London in the time of Henry VII. MS. Roy. 16 F. ii.
London, 1510, the earliest view in print
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Plan of the Bankside, Southwark, in Shakespeare's time
Detail of Norden's Map of the Bankside, 1593
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