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Wit and loyalty reviv'd : in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times

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Type of record: Book

Title: Wit and loyalty reviv'd : in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/COW

Additional creator(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) (Other); Birkenhead, Sir John (1616-1679) (Other); Butler, Samuel (1612-1680) (Other)

Related people: Cowley, Abraham; Birkenhead, John; Butler, Samuel

Publisher: printed, for W. Davis

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1682

Language: English

Size and medium: [6], 18, 21-35, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/275041

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000157059705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

The words "Mr. Abraham... Hudibras, &c." are bracketed together on title page.


"The Puritan and papist. A satyr, by Mr. Abraham Cowley" and "The assembly-man; written by Sir John Birkenhead; in the year 1647" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. "A proposal humbly offered for the farming of liberty of conscience. Written in the year 1663. By the author of Hudibrass" [i.e. Samuel Butler] has caption title on E1r.


M.R. Perkin, "Abraham Cowley. A bibliography", p. 31, gives variants in pagination for "The Puritan and the papist" and in imprint date for its separate dated title page (A1r). Pagination has p. 12 misnumbered 13, 13 as 12, and p. 18 correctly numbered. Variant pagination 1: p. 12 misnumbered 13, 13 as 12, and 18 as 17. Variant pagination 2: p. 8 misnumbered 10, 12 as 7, 13 as 6, p. 18 correctly numbered. Imprint date for "The Puritan and the papist" (A1r) is 1682; variant imprint date is 1681/2.


Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C6697.

Additional description

Wanting pp.19-20, probably the title-page of Butler's 'A proposal humbly offered...[etc], which follows, as is always the case'. Note (3rd of October 1964) with collation of copy in Trinity College Library, Cambridge, inserted

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