Accession number
PML 7193-94
Published
London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Preface, memoirs and notes attributed to Edward Dubois and Thomas Park.
At head of title: Facetiae.
Three collections originally published separately. The first and second are reprinted from the editions of 1656 and 1658; the third combines the material of four editions, 1640, 1641, 1654, and 1663.
With reproductions of early title-pages and a facsimile of original frontispiece of "Witt's recreations."
Ascribed to Sir John Mennes and James Smith, but all three collections include the work of others.
At head of title: Facetiae.
Three collections originally published separately. The first and second are reprinted from the editions of 1656 and 1658; the third combines the material of four editions, 1640, 1641, 1654, and 1663.
With reproductions of early title-pages and a facsimile of original frontispiece of "Witt's recreations."
Ascribed to Sir John Mennes and James Smith, but all three collections include the work of others.
Description
2 v. : front., illus. ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco, tooled, with elaborate doublure.
Classification
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