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Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth. Newly corrected and amended

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Type of record: Book

Title: Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth. Newly corrected and amended

Other titles: Wits commonwealth

Level: Item

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 Ja. Flesher, and are to be sold by Richard Royston

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1650

Language: English

Size and medium: [6], 321, [6] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/340962

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014218709705181

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.


Indexed in: Wing L2337.

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Name John Albin on title-page Mary all been , Mary Burnell and Sarah Board junr her Book 1745 on final blank page. Stamp of Henry Sotheran (bookseller) on verso of front free endpaper.

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