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Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 606:2.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- N. L. (Nicholas Ling), active 1580-1607.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 606:2.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aphorisms and apothegms.
- Maxims.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 321 pages, 6 unnumbered pages
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Edition:
- Newly corrected and amended.
- Other Title:
- Wits' commonwealth.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for E. Flesher, 1684.
- Notes:
- "A table ..." [i.e. index]: p. [3]-[6] at end.
- Running title: Wits common-wealth.
- Usually ascribed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection, though the work appears to have been done by Nicholas Ling. Cf. Dedication; also DNB.
- 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. DNB.
- Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1976. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 606:2)
- Cited in:
- Wing L2346
- OCLC:
- 12232592
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