Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth: or, a treasury of divine, moral, historical and political admonitions, similies and sentences. For the use of schools
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- Imprint
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London: printed by J.H. for W. Freeman at the Bible over-against the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1699.
Newly revised.; ..
- Added name
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Bodenham, John, active 1600, attributed name.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698, engraver.
- Publication year
- 1699
- ESTC No.
- R33487
- Grub Street ID
- 116097
- Description
- [8], 321, [7] p. ; 12°.
- Note
- 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.