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Naps upon Parnassus : a sleepy muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened. Such voluntary and jovial copies of verses, as were lately receiv'd from some of the Wits of the Universities, in a frolick, dedicated to Gondibert's mistress by Captain Jones and others. Whereunto is added .. the Author's .. epistle to one of the Universities. [Signed, K.Q.] With the answer; together with two satyrical characters of his own, of a Temporizer and an Antiquary, etc. [and an "Advertisement to the reader," signed, Adoniram Banstittle, alias Tinderbox. Poems written in ridicule of Samuel Austin, by T. Sprat, T. Flatman and others].

Accession number
PML 4225
Creator
Q., K.
Published
London, 1658
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
A collection of lampoon directed against Samuel Austin, the younger.
Collation - Title, in border, A1. Advertisement to the reader, A2. Poem, A8-C8. The author's own Virtue and Prufe, D1-E6. Two exact Characters, E7-F4. Sir M.M. Sykes copy, his initials on covers, also bookplates of E.G. Utterson & Peter Hall, initials of George Smith on fly-leaf.
First ed.
Description
1 v.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Calf by Roger Payne.
Classification
Department