A treatise excellent and compedious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye : the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses with other nobles, through y[e] mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune together with their most detestable & wicked vices : first compyled in Latin / by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne ; and sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan John Lidgate, monke of Burye.

A verse translation of Laurent de Premierfait's "Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes", a French version of Boccaccio's "De casibus virorum illustrium".
The last leaf is misnumbered CCxxiiii.
The woodcut illustrations, except the two in "The daunce of Machabree", are from the blocks used by Pynson in his second (1527) ed. of this work (STC 3176).
Third ed. in English.
Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the. x. day of September in the yere of oure Lorde 1554. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
Contains "The dance of Machabree", fol. ccxx-ccxxiiiii, also the duplicate leaf ccxx [i.e. CCxix], with "Greneacres, a lenucy vpon John Bochas".
In double columns.