FACETIAE. MUSARUM DELICIÆ, OR, THE MUSES RECREATION : CONTEINING SEVERALL PIECES OF POETIQUE WIT. BY SR. J.M. AND JA:S. 1656 ; WIT RESTOR'D, IN SEVERALL SELECT POEMS, NOT FORMERLY PUBLISH'T. 1658 ; WITS RECREATIONS, SELECTED FROM THE FINEST FANCIES OF MODERNE MUSES : WITH A THOUSAND OUT-LANDISH PROVERBS. 1640. THE WHOLE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE ORIGINALS [Two volumes]
London: John Camden Hotten, [1874?]. New edition with additional notes, indexes, and a portrait of Sir John Mennis, Kt. Octavo, Two volumes: xx, 339 pages; xxvii, 530 pages. In Good minus condition. Spines are black, gold print on brown banners, raised bands. Boards half bound with black leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards ; wear to spine caps, hinges, and corners, mild rubbing to paper. Text block has gilt top edge, marbled endpapers; cracked front hinges, owner label on front pastedowns, names and notes in ink on front endpapers, foxing to endpapers, first volumes with taped repair to page 279. Illustrated: “With all the wood engravings, plates, memoirs, and notes”— title page. Probable date of publication, 1874, taken from Library of Congress bibliographic record. Three collections originally published separately. The first and second are reprinted from the editions of 1656 and 1658; the third combines the material of four editions, 1640, 1641, 1654, and 1663. They have been ascribed to Sir John Mennes and James Smith, but all three include the work of others. Retains the preface, memoirs, and notes of the edition of 1817, attributed to Edward Dubois and Thomas Park. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates].
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