By the Duke of Buckingham, assisted by Martin Clifford, Thomas Sprat, and others.--Cambridge history of English literature and the Dictionary of national biography

Line 5 of title page in two settings; title word "amendments" spelled 1)"Amendments", or 2)"a mendments."--ESTC

Signatures: [A]² B-H⁴ I².

Errors in pagination: p. 28, 29, 32 misnumbered "27," "28," "31," respectively

Catalogue of the Barton collection, Boston Public Library (1888 edition)

English short title catalogue

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994)

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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy formerly quarterbound in ca. 19th-century brown goatskin and marbled paper with title stamped in gilt along the spine. Conserved, rebound in paper, and housed in a tan cloth box (12/2017). Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Ownership inscription of Narcissus Luttrell ("Nar. Luttrell His Book 1682") on front flyleaf recto. Ink stamp of Richard Heber on front flyleaf recto. Provenance inscription in the hand of Thomas Pennant Barton on front flyleaf recto. Inscription of authorial attribution in the hand of Narcissus Luttrell on title page ("ye Duke of Buckingham"). Interleaved, with corresponding passages from the plays parodied within the text inscribed on the blank leaves in a hand ascribed by the Heber catalog to Narcissus Luttrell (Catalogue of the library of Richard Heber, part 2, lot no. 906)

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