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.

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.

London : Printed by R. Bishop, for Richard Best, and are to be sold at his shop neare Graies-Inne-gate in Holdborne [sic], 1640.

[50], 318, [14] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 17 cm (8vo)

Philogenes Panedonius = Richard Brathwait.

With an additional engraved title page.

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.

Leaf X8 is blank

Identified as STC 3555a on UMI microfilm reel 645.

Signatures: [A]1 a⁸(±a1) b-c⁸ B-X⁸ Y⁴ Z².

Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 3555.4
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S115150

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 3555.4

Engraved title page and gathering Z lacking. Manuscript notes. Provenance: bookplate and bookstamp of the Earl of Roseberry; signature of Wm. Barnes

ac4376

STC 3555.2