Wits recreations. : Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses.
1640
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Details
Title
Wits recreations. : Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses.
Created/published
London : Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson and Thomas Paine] for Humphry Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill, 1640.
Description
[300] p. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Note
In verse.
With an additional engraved title page (pi2), engraved, "Witts recreations", signed: W. Marshall sculpsit.
Leaves [A]1, M4 and ²E4 are blank.
Signatures: [A]⁴([A]1+pi²) B-L⁸ M⁴, 2A-2C⁸, ²A-D⁸ ²E⁴.
"Outlandish proverbs, selected by Mr. G.H." (i.e. George Herbert) has separate dated title page with imprint "London, printed by T[homas]. P[aine]. for Humphrey Blunden ..". It was also issued separately as STC 13182.
Printers' names from STC.
Entered 15 October 1639.
With an additional engraved title page (pi2), engraved, "Witts recreations", signed: W. Marshall sculpsit.
Leaves [A]1, M4 and ²E4 are blank.
Signatures: [A]⁴([A]1+pi²) B-L⁸ M⁴, 2A-2C⁸, ²A-D⁸ ²E⁴.
"Outlandish proverbs, selected by Mr. G.H." (i.e. George Herbert) has separate dated title page with imprint "London, printed by T[homas]. P[aine]. for Humphrey Blunden ..". It was also issued separately as STC 13182.
Printers' names from STC.
Entered 15 October 1639.
ESTC staff note
Imprimatur at foot of leaf 2C8v: Octob. 8. 1639. Imprimatur. Matth. Clay.
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
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), 25870
Case, 95
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120256
Case, 95
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120256
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 25870 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH221/33. Manuscript markings in part 2; part of dedication heading on A3r and statement of responsibility for part 2 on ²A1r are inked out in MS; manuscript price (?) on front end-paper. Sheepskin binding with gilt borders. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "Savil[e?] Hyde 1719"; inscription on engr. t.p.: "Bor Hyde"; armorial bookplate of Horatio Walpole (motto "fari quae sentiat"); autograph initials of William Henry Miller on front paste-down; Britwell Court (pencilled shelf-mark "37. B. 33."); Britwell sale, 31 March 1924, lot 829; collated at Quaritch by E. Talbot; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 25870 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs78. Lacking blanks. Manuscript correction on H5r. Part 2 wormed at inner margin, affecting text. Blind tooled red goatskin binding; all edges gilt. Provenance: bookplate of Marshall Clifford Lefferts
Call number
STC 25870 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs11. Imperfect: lacking sig.[pi], including engr. t.p., A3 (dedication leaf), and all after 2C8 (part 2). Lacking blanks. Brown goatskin binding with gilt tooled spine and turn-ins; all edges gilt. Provenance: bought by Folger from Sotheby's Sotheran sale, 27 June 1898
Call number
STC 25870 copy 4
Folger-specific note
cs289. Imperfect: lacking sigs.[A] and [pi], B1, E3, H2.7, K3-6, L2-7 and all after 2C8; [A]4, B1 and E3 supplied in manuscript facsimile. Lacking blanks. Trimmed, affecting some headlines. Some leaves foxed or stained, affecting text. Marbled calf binding; gilt monogram (?) stamped at head of spine: "[T? or J?] B". Provenance: inscription on C7r inked out and illegible; inscription on C2r: "Penellope Gunue[s ?]"