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

Author:

Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.

Published:

[London?], Imprinted by Iohn Anoke and Iohn Astile for the Bayliue of Withernam [T. Orwin], [1589.]

Description:

[2], 36 p. ; 18 cm

Credit:

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?]

Binding:

Red morocco, gilt, stamped with the Griswold arms, by Bedford.

Provenance:

Binding with the Griswold arms; from the Irwin collection.

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