Politeuphuia, wits commonwealth. Newly corrected and amended
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Type of record: Book
Title: Politeuphuia, wits commonwealth. Newly corrected and amended
Other titles: Wits commonwealth
Classmark: BC Lt d/LIN
Additional creator(s): Ling, Nicholas (fl. 1600) (Other); Bodenham, John (fl. 1600) (Other)
Related people: Ling, Nicholas; Bodenham, John
Publisher: Printed by E. Flesher, and are to be sold by Edward Brewster at the Crane in St. Pauls Church-yard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1678
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], 321, [6] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270731
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017969699705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Usually ascribed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection though the work appears to have been done by Nicholas Ling. cf. Dedication; also Dict. nat. biog.
Epistle dedicatory and "To the reader" signed N.L. [i.e. Nicholas Ling].
Often cited as Wits' commonwealth, and some editions appeared under that title. Published first in 1597, as the first in a series of which Mere's "Palladis Tamia," 1598 was the second; "Wits Theater of the little world," by Robert Allott, 1598, the third; and "Palladis Palatium. Wisedoms Pallace," 1604, the fourth. cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Wing L2345.
Additional description
Wanting A1. Last leaf (O12) has lower part cut away and is mounted. On the blank verso, visible through the backng, is part of a signature: Richard [ - ], with the date 167[-], and below the date a capital R. Ms. notes (pen-trials?) on recto and verso of title. Armorial bookplate of William Fuller Maitland, of Stansted Hall
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