N. L. Politeuphuia : wits common-wealth: or, a treasury of divine, moral, historical and political admonitions, similies and sentences. For the use of schools

Folger bibliographic ID: 152249
ESTC number: R33487
Wing number: L2348
Folger call number: L2348
Folger holdings ID: 147242

Edition

Newly revised

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

With an additional, engraved title page signed: F. H. van Hove sculp "The epistle dedicatory" and "To the reader" signed: N.L Usually ascribed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection, though the work appears to have been done by Nicholas Ling. cf. Dedication; also DNB Often cited as Wits' commonwealth, and some editions appeared under that title. Published first in 1597, as the first in a series of which Mere's "Palladis Tamia," 1598, was the second; "Wits Theater of the little world," by Robert Allott, 1598, the third; and "Palladis Palatium. Wisedoms Pallace," 1604, the fourth. cf. DNB With index and final advertisement leaf

Item information about Folger L2348

6/10/41. Manuscript marks. H2 foxed, affecting text. Provenance: pasted on front fly-leaf, printed label reading: "This book was purchased in 1941 from London whilst the great battle for civilization was in progress. Francis Edwards Ltd."

Extended title: Politeuphuia : wits common-wealth: or, a treasury of divine, moral, historical and political admonitions, similies and sentences. For the use of schools

Aphorisms and apothegms Maxims

author: N. L. (Nicholas Ling), active 1580-1607
attributed name: Bodenham, John, active 1600
printmaker: Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698