Greenes groatsvvor[th] of witte: bought with a million of repentance : describing the folly of youth, the falshood of make-shift flatterers, the miserie of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceyuing curtezans. Published at his dying request, and, newly corrected, and of many errors purged
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Type of record: Book
Title: Greenes groatsvvor[th] of witte: bought with a million of repentance : describing the folly of youth, the falshood of make-shift flatterers, the miserie of the negligent, and mischiefes of deceyuing curtezans. Published at his dying request, and, newly corrected, and of many errors purged
Other titles: Groats-worth of wit, bought with a million of repentance; Groats-worth of wit, bought with a million of repentance; Greens groatsworth of witte; Greens groatsworth of witte: bought with a million of repentance; Greenes Epitaph: discoursed dialogue-wise betweene Life and Death
Classmark: Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 05
Creator(s): Greene, Robert (1558-1592)
Additional creator(s): Chettle, Henry (Other); Hind, John (1596-1606) (Other); Heywood, Jasper (1535-1598) (Other); Alsop, Bernard (Printer); Bell, Henry (1606-1638) (Bookseller); Pratt, W (Bookseller); Paine, Cornelius (1809-1890) (Former owner); Jolley, Thomas (Former owner); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed by Barnard Alsop, for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his shop without Bishopsgate
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1617
Language: English
Size and medium: [56] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731289
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019909966005181
Description
Signed on G2r: Robert Greene.
Partly in verse.
Edited by Henry Chettle.
Preface and "Greenes Epitaph" signed: "I. H." which has been variously assigned to John Hind and less plausibly to Jasper Heywood, who died in 1598--Halkett and Laing.
"Greenes Epitaph: discoursed dialogue-wise betweene Life and Death" begins on G3r.
Signatures: A-G⁴.
Running title reads: Greenes groatsworth of wit.
Another edition, with new preliminaries and additions; newly corrected [By I. H[ind?].]--STC.
Indexed in: ESTC
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.)
Indexed in: de Ricci
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 05: excerpt from bookseller's catalogue pasted onto front pastedown, no. 1303 [i.e. sold as lot 1303 in Sotheby's sale of Paine's in 1891] also referencing bought in the Jolley's sale for £15 5s [i.e. sale of Thomas Jolley's collection 1843-1853, English Literature in 1843 and 1844, see de Ricci]; excerpt from bookseller's catalogue, W. Pratt, no. 76, explaining that C3 and F3 portion supplied by a pen.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 05: nineteenth-century full calf, gold tooled on cover, spine, edges, red marbled endpapers, gilt fore-edges, bound by W. Pratt.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 05: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Cornelius Paine [i.e. Cornelius Paine (1809-1890), whose library was sold by Sotheby's on 16 February and the following 7 days in 1891, see also Franks 22583]. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Cornelius Paine. Printed on bottom of front flyleaf: bound by W Pratt. Several MS. annotations by bookseller[s] in pencil on front flyleaves in two [or more] different hands: £2- 2-, bought in Jolley's sale £15 5 0; An edition not in either edition of Lowndes.
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