Euphues : the anatomy of wit : very pleasant for all gentlemen to reade and most necessary to remember : wherein are contained the delights that wit followeth in his youth by the pleasantnesse of loue and the happinesse he reapeth in age by the perfectnesse of wisdome / by Iohn Lylie ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.

Contributor:

Beale, John, -1643, printer.

Parker, John, -1648, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (bookplate) (honoree)

Nash, John S.[?] (inscription, 1835)

Davis, Henry (autograph)

Bithiah (autograph)

Congon[?], Thomas (autograph, 1689)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Physical Description:

384 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (4to)

Edition:

Corrected and augmented.

Place of Publication:

At London : Printed ... by Iohn Beale for Iohn Parker, [1623]

Notes:

Part 2 has special t.p.: Euphues and his England ... 1623.

Signatures: A-2A⁸.

"Euphues and his England", originally published separately, has separate title page dated 1623, but signatures are continuous with preceding text.

Black letter.

Woodcuts: title vignette (printer's mark), initials and head-pieces.

Printer's device (McK. no. 374) on t.p.

Local Notes:

Library copy has partially erased ms. inscription in ink on front free endpaper, autographs in ink on t.p. and leaf E8v, and ms. note in pencil on t.p. verso.

Library copy bound in full vellum with gold-stamped covers; five raised bands on spine; gold-stamped spine panels; title and author stamped in gold on spine; cover edges and turn-ins stamped in gold; all edges gilt; blue silk marker.

Library copy imperfect: "Euphues and his England" wanting.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 17065

ESTC S108990

Contains:

Lyly, John, 1554?-1606. Euphues and his England.

OCLC:

57050334