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The wits, or, Sport upon sport: being a curious collection of several drols and farces : presented and shewn for the merriment and delight of wise men, and the ignorant ...
1673, Printed for Fran. Kirkman, and are to be sold by most book-sellers
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The words "in London ... at other" are bracketed together on title page.
Another imposition in octavo format was published in the same year.--Cf. ESTC
In two parts; the first part was originally published in 1662 (Wing W2318).
Signatures: A-H́þ
Part II of The wits, or, Sport upon sport, containing ten drolls ascribed to Robert Cox and collected by Kirkman.
" ... as they have been sundry times acted in publique, and private : {in London at Bartholomew, in the countrey at other} faires : in halls and taverns, on several mountebancks stages, at Charing Cross, Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and other places, by several stroleing [sic] players, fools, and fidlers, and the mountebancks zanies, with loud laughter, and great applause ..."--Title page
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W3220A
ESTC R012347
NUC pre-1956 NW0395850
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early calfskin triple-panelled in blind with extensive floral tooling. The spine has been rebacked. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown and the ink stamp of the 3rd Duke of Roxburghe is present on the title page verso. An auctioneer's description, published by Sotheby & Wilkinson for the Halliwell sale of May, 1857, and inscribed, with pricing information, in the hand of Thomas Pennant Barton, is also present on the front pastedown.
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