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Facetiae. Musarum deliciae : or, The muses recreation. Containing severall pieces of poetique wit. / By Sr. J. M. and Ja:S. 1656. And Wit restor'd, in severall select poems, not formerly publish't. 1658. Also Wits recreations, selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses. With a thousand out-landish proverbs. Printed from edition 1640, with all the wood engravings, and improvements of subsequent editions. To which are now added Memoirs of Sir John Mennis and James Smith.

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.
Description
2 v. : front., illus. ; 20 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco, tooled, with elaborate doublure.
Classification
Department