English villanies : seven severall times prest to death by the printers; but (still reviving againe) are now the eighth time, (as at the first) discovered by lanthorne and candle-light; and the helpe of a new cryer, called O-per-se-O: vvhose loud voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him; another conspiracy of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of this kingdome; which the bell-man (because he then went stumbling i'th darke) could never see, till now. And because a company of rogues, cunning canting gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation fight heere under their tattered colours, at the end is a canting dictionary, to teach their language: with canting songs. ...
1638
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Title
English villanies : seven severall times prest to death by the printers; but (still reviving againe) are now the eighth time, (as at the first) discovered by lanthorne and candle-light; and the helpe of a new cryer, called O-per-se-O: vvhose loud voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him; another conspiracy of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of this kingdome; which the bell-man (because he then went stumbling i'th darke) could never see, till now. And because a company of rogues, cunning canting gypsies, and all the scumme of our nation fight heere under their tattered colours, at the end is a canting dictionary, to teach their language: with canting songs. ...
Uniform title
Lanthorne and candle-light
Created/published
London : Printed by M. Parsons, and are to be sold by Iames Becket, at the Inner-Temple gate in Fleet-street, 1638.
Description
[112] p. : ill. ; (4to)
Associated name
Note
Dedication signed: T. Dekker.
An expansion of "Lanthorne and candle-light", in turn a continuation of "The belman of London".
Signatures: A-O⁴.
Running title reads: The bel-mans night-walkes. Whereunto is added O per se O.
An expansion of "Lanthorne and candle-light", in turn a continuation of "The belman of London".
Signatures: A-O⁴.
Running title reads: The bel-mans night-walkes. Whereunto is added O per se O.
ESTC staff note
rpm 09/05/96
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 6492
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109529
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109529
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 6492 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs1411. T.p. badly mended; uncut; partly unopened. Provenance: Britwell Court number on verso of front free endpaper; probably the copy bought by Pickering & Chatto from Sotheby sale of Britwell Court library, 30 March 1925:227; bought by Folger in 1925 from Maggs
Call number
STC 6492 copy 2
Folger-specific note
148609. -A1(t.p.). Provenance: possibly Sir Thomas Phillipps copy