Elizabeth I Queen of England 1533-1603

Elizabeth's glass with "The glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I, and "Epistle dedicatory" & "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale by Marc Shell ( )
4 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 1,350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical. Four years later her translation, titled "The Glass of the Sinful Soul," was published by the Protestant reformer John Bale. However ingenuous Elizabeth may have been at eleven, she surely realized the implications of the tract when she permitted new editions in 1568, 1582, and 1590. Its bearing on her own family and her precarious hold on the throne was all too obvious when dissenters accused both her father, Henry VIII, and her mother, Ann Boleyn, of adultery, when her father had sought to annul his first marriage on grounds of incest, when her mother was accused by Henry of incest, and when Elizabeth herself was deemed a bastard. Making Elizabeth's little-known work readily available to today's scholars, Elizabeth's Glass includes a photographic reproduction of Elizabeth's manuscript and a modern transcription, as well as John Bale's additions to his 1548 edition. In an erudite and penetrating introduction, Marc Shell investigates the complex political, familial, theological, and ecclesiastical forces that made Elizabeth acutely conscious of incest and made her translation an emblem of a controversy that stormed throughout Reformation Europe

Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI of Scotland some of them printed from originals in the possession of the Rev. Edward Ryder and others from a ms. which formerly belonged to Sir Peter Thompson, kt. by Elizabeth ( )
32 editions published between 1849 and 2010 in English and held by 1,051 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poems of Queen Elizabeth I by Elizabeth ( Book )
9 editions published between 1964 and 2002 in English and German and held by 560 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

By the Queene. A proclamation for the prices of wines by England and Wales ( )
23 editions published between 1580 and 1618 in English and held by 522 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The public speaking of Queen Elizabeth; selections from her official addresses by Elizabeth ( Book )
13 editions published between 1951 and 1966 in English and held by 438 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Iniunctions geuen by the Queenes Maiestie, anno Domini 1559, the fyrst yere of the raigne of our soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth by England and Wales ( )
18 editions published between 1559 and 1576 in English and held by 348 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Iniunctions geuen by the Queenes Maiestie, anno Domini 1559, the first yere of the raigne of our soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth by England and Wales ( )
8 editions published between 1564 and 1591 in English and held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Iniunctions geuen by the Quenes Maiestie Anno Domini. M.D. LIX. The fyrst yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne lady Quene Elizabeth. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis by Church of England ( )
18 editions published in 1559 in English and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reasons for a war against Spain in a letter from a merchant of London trading to America, to a member of the House of Commons : with a plan of operations by L. D ( )
6 editions published between 1737 and 1738 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Queen Elizabeth's Englishings of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, A.D. 1593; Plutarch, de curiositate [1598]; Horace, De arte poetica (part) A.D. 1598 by Elizabeth ( Book )
13 editions published between 1899 and 1997 in English and held by 228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide