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Bellum grammaticale, sive, Nominum verborumq[ue], discordia civilis tragico-comoedia. : Summo cum applausu olim apud Oxonienses in scaenam producta, & nunc in omnium illorum qui ad gra[m]maticam animos appellunt oblectamentum edita.

Guarna, Andrea. author.; Hutton, Leonard, attributed name.; Spencer, John, -1680.
1635
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Title
Bellum grammaticale, sive, Nominum verborumq[ue], discordia civilis tragico-comoedia. : Summo cum applausu olim apud Oxonienses in scaenam producta, & nunc in omnium illorum qui ad gra[m]maticam animos appellunt oblectamentum edita.
Uniform title
Bellum grammaticale
Created/published
Londini : Excudebant B. A[lsop]. & T. Fawcet, impensis Ioh. Spenceri, 1635.
Description
[14], 66 p. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Guarna, Andrea. author.
Hutton, Leonard, attributed name.
Spencer, John, -1680.
Note
A dramatized version of: Guarna, Andrea. Bellum grammaticale nominis & verbi regum, de principalitate orationis inter se contendentium.

The dramatization is sometimes attributed to Leonard Hutton.

In Latin verse.

Editor's dedication signed: Iohan: Spencerum.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-E⁸.

The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A" within mortised ornament.

Errata on A7r.

A variant of the edition with "T.F." in imprint place of "T. Fawcet" (STC 12417).
ESTC staff note
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), 12418
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120391
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 12418
Folger-specific note
cs1828. Half calf binding, with cut-out of Aldine printer's device and gilt title on front cover. Cropped at fore-edge, affecting some text

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