A collection of English proverbs : digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion : with short annotations : whereunto are added local proverbs with their explications, old proverbial rhythmes, less known or exotick proverbial sentences, and Scottish proverbs / by J.R. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, John, 1627-1705, compiler.

Contributor:

Hayes, John, 1633 or 1634-1705, printer.

Morden, William, bookseller.

Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Compleat collection of English proverbs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proverbs, English--Early works to 1800.

Proverbs, English.

Proverbs, Scottish--Early works to 1800.

Proverbs, Scottish.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Pirie, Robert S. (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 296 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Distribution:

Cambridge : Printed ... for W. Morden, 1670.

Manufacture:

Cambridge : Printed by John Hayes, printer to the University ..., 1670.

Fingerprint:

s,i- rsi. n.l. ItAn (3) 1670 (A)

Notes:

"J.R." is John Ray. See ESTC.

Signatures: A⁴ B-T⁸ U⁴.

Title in red and black.

Woodcut factotum and initial.

Type ornament head-pieces.

Subsequently, in the 18th-century, published with title: A compleat collection of English proverbs.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has early manuscript inscription ("m f") on title leaf; a few manuscript marks in text.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.

RBC copy has illustrated bookplate of Robert S. Pirie affixed to inside left board.

RBC copy without front pastedown; portion of an early printed leaf from an unidentified edition of St. Remigius of Rheims' Explanationes epistolarum beati Pauli apostoli (specifically from "Ad Romanos" c. 1) used as binder's waste (back pastedown) with a printed paper strip from the same text affixed to it.

Cited in:

Wing R386

Keynes, G. John Ray, 10

ESTC R13689

OCLC:

84772605