A dedication 'To the Most Noble Lords, with the Honorable Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, Now assembled in Parliament', signed: 'Robert Brooke', follows the title-page; a list of 'The Contents of the Sections, and Chapters, in the following Discourse',with an 'Errata' note on the verso, precedes the main text; on recto of final printed page a note headed: 'The Stationer to the Reader', reading: 'Courteous Reader, I have thought good to translate divers Passages of this Treatise into English, (when partof the sense is contained in the Latine Phrase, or expression) that they who are unlearned, may be able more fully to understand the meaning of what they read. Accept of my good intention, and Pardon me, both in that, by my English, I interrupt the smoothnesse of the Style; and also that I cannot so render the Latine, as to retain the elegancie and native beauty of the Authors expression. Farewell'.

Percy copy cropped at lower edges, with some loss of text from signatures and catchwords.

Wing B4912; Thomason I, 44.