Ar't asleepe husband? : A boulster lecture; stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted, from the choicest flowers of philosophy, poesy, antient and moderne history. Illustrated with examples of incomparable constancy, in the excellent history of Philocles and Doriclea. By Philogenes Panedonius.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.

Contributor:

Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, illustrator.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 628:1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Physical Description:

50 unnumbered pages, 318 pages, 14 unnumbered pages, plate

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Boulster lecture.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by R. Bishop, for R[ichard] B[est] or his assignes, 1640.

Notes:

Philogenes Panedonius = Richard Brathwait.

With an additional title page, engraved, "A boulster lecture.", with imprint "London. Printed for R.B. or his assignes.", signed by William Marshall.

Variant: imprint on engraved title page reads: London. Printed for R Best and are to bee sould at his shop neare Graies-Inn gaite in Houlbourne.

The Huntington Library copy has a leaf inserted after a1, possibly as a cancel, containing a dedication to Mrs. Catherine Fletcher; not included in pagination above.

K4 is a cancel.

Quire Y contains "Menippus his madrigall, to his coy-duck Clarabel"; quire Z contains "A postscript, writte by an auditor, upon hearing this lecture". The last leaf contains errata reimposed from Y4.

Running title reads: A boulster lecture.

Another issue has Richard Best's name in full in the letterpress imprint.

Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1955. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 628:01). s1955 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 3555.

OCLC:

71494418