Politeuphuia, Wits common-wealth. newly corrected and amended

People / Organizations

• N. L. (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by E. Flesher, and are to be sold by Edward Brewster at the Crane in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1678.

Added name

Bodenham, John, active 1600, attributed name.

Publication year

1678

ESTC No.

R34525

Grub Street ID

117049

Description

[6], 321, [7] p. ; 12°.

Note

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

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