Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen / By Stephen Gosson. A treatise on the pride and abuse of women. By Charles Bansley. The first from a copy with the author's autograph; the last from an unique impression by Thomas Raynalde.

Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen / By Stephen Gosson. A treatise on the pride and abuse of women. By Charles Bansley. The first from a copy with the author's autograph; the last from an unique impression by Thomas Raynalde.

London : Reprinted by T.Richards, 1841.

xii, 16, 15 p. ; 20 cm

Reprinted for the Percy society but afterwards suppressed.

With reproduction of the title-page of the London edition of 1596 of Pleasant quippes.

Edited by J. Payne Collier.

Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen was first published, London, 1595, with two title-pages: (1) Quippes for vpstart newfangled gentlewomen, (2) A glasse, to view the pride of vainglorious women.

The attribution of the authorship to Gosson was first made by John Payne Collier on the basis of the inscription on the title page which he claimed was in Gosson's own hand-writing. The inscription is now considered by some to be a Collier forgery. cf. Gosson, Stephen. Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen, 1942, p. vii-xvi.

Manuscript note "First castrated & afterwards suppressed by the Percy Society. This is one of twenty uncastrated copies" signed: Payne Collier.

W.T. Lowndes lists the Percy Society's version immediately following no. 94 of the Society's early English poetry (Bibl. man. (1869) v. 6, p. 65).

Great Britain -- England -- London.

PR2279.G6 Q5

A Percy Society reprint edited by J. Payne Collier--see 1942 ed., Introduction, p. xvii-xviii, no. 5.

Presentation note by Collier to Sir Frederick Madden.