PUBLICATION DE L'ANATOMY OF WIT
Secundo Die Decembris [1578] Gabriell Cawood. Licenced vnto him the Anotamie of witt Compiled by John Lyllie vnder the hande of the bishopp of London... xijd.
(Stationers Registers, 11, 842).
T haue now finished both my labours, the one [The Anatomy] being hatched in the hard winter with the Alcyon.….
(Euphues & his England, Epistle Dedicatory, IT, 5).
We commonly see the booke that at Christmas lyeth bound on the Stacioners stall...
(The Anatomy of Wit, To the Gentlemen Readers, I, 182).