Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Pappe with an hatchet, alias A figge for my God sonne, or Cracke me this nut, or A countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning. / Written by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to prevent Martins dog daies.

Accession number
PML 6262
Creator
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.
Published
[London?], Imprinted by Iohn Anoke and Iohn Astile for the Bayliue of Withernam [T. Orwin], [1589.]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Dedication paginated; top trimmed.
First edition.
B2v, line 26 : 'abusde."; D4v lines 11-12 'next/booke, shall be ...'
Privately printed.
Preface signed. "Double V."
An amusing anonymous attack upon "Martin Marprelate".
Sometimes attributed to Thomas Nash.
Halk. [By John Lylly] n.p. 1589. [Bodi.] Collien ascribes it to Nash.
D N.B. Under Lyly. Probably privately printed in Sept. 1589. Long account.
D N.B. under Nash. To Lyly should be ascribed this work which often figures in lists of Nash's works.
BM. Under Lyly. see Marprelate. Under Marprelate, This title [By J. Lilly? or T. Nash? London? 1589?]
Description
[2], 36 p. ; 18 cm
Provenance
Binding with the Griswold arms; from the Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, stamped with the Griswold arms, by Bedford.
Classification
Department