Archie Armstrong's Banquet of jests : reprinted from the original editions together with Archy's dream printed in the yeare 1641.

Archie Armstrong's Banquet of jests : reprinted from the original editions together with Archy's dream printed in the yeare 1641.

Banquet of jests.

Edinburgh : W. Paterson, 1872.

xxix, [5], [vii]-xii, 383, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm

Title in red within ornamental border.

"Impression. 225 copies on ordinary paper; 25 copies on Whatman's paper; 2 copies on vellum."

Preface signed: T.H. Jamieson.

Reprint from the 5th and 6th editions, with reproductions of the original title-pages: "A Banqvet Of Jests. Or a Collection of Court, Camp, Colledge, Citie, Country, Iests ... The sixth Ed., much enl. ... London, Printed for R. Royston, 1640," and "Archy's Dream, sometimes Iester to his Maiestie, but exiled the Court of Canterburies malice ... Printed in the yeare 1641."

The earlier editions make no mention of the jester's name, and the use of it in the 5th and 6th editions may have been a mere trade device. cf. Pref.

"List of the editions": p. xxvii-xxix.

Archy's dream.

Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

PN6173 .B3 1872