Fine knacks for ladies, in which the anonymous poet takes on the role of a pedlar,[3] has been anthologised as an example of Elizabethan verse, for example in The Norton Anthology of Poetry.
For the second book, Dowland turned to a different team - the publisher was George Eastland of Fleet Street (an obscure figure who appears to have known the Dowland family) and the printer was Thomas East, an experienced music printer.
A fee had to be paid to Thomas Morley, who held a patent (a monopoly of music printing) from 1598.
The manuscript was delivered by Mrs Dowland, but as Dowland was living abroad, he was not able to liaise with the printer, and the proofs were read by two composers who were in London at the time, John Wilbye and Edward Johnson.
The Second Book appears to have sold less well than expected, at any rate it was not reprinted by Thomas East.