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The Wits, or, Sport upon sport : In selected pieces of drollery, digested into scenes by way of dialogue. Together with variety of humours of several nations, fitted for the pleasure and content of all persons, either in court, city, country, or camp. The like never before published. Part I.

Accession number
PML 6208.1
Published
London : Printed by E.C. for Fancis [!] Kirkman, next Door to the Sign of the Princes Arms, in St. Pauls Church-Yard., 1672.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Woodward & McManaway no. 1316.
Ten drolls ascribed to Robert Cox and Francis Kirkman.
... sheets of the 1662 first edition compiled by Robert Cox, the actor, and printed by Henry Marsh with a cancellans 1672 title affixed for Francis Kirkman (see Letter 1 Mar. 1948 from Mr. Fredson Bowers).
References: Not in Hazlitt, Woodward & MacManaway, 1314.
"A catalogue of the several droll-humours, from what plays collected, and what page to be found in this book": 1 p. at end.
Twenty-seven drolls founded chiefly upon scenes from the plays of Shakespeare, Fletcher, Shirley and others, collected by Fletcher Kirkman.
No more published.
Description
186, [2] p. ; 17 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Brown pigskin in blue cloth folding box.
Classification
Department