Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae; or, The Muses Recreation. MENNES (Sir John) and SMITH (James).
Containing several pieces of poetic wit. By Sr. J. M. and Ja. S. 1656. Wit Restor'd, in several select poems, not formerly publish't. 1658. Wits Recreations, selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses. With a thousand out-landish proverbs. 1640. New Edition. With additional Notes, Indexes, and a portrait of Sir John Mennis, Kt.
Frontispiece portrait in vol.1, woodcut illustrations in vol.2.
Two volumes. 8vo. [220 x 170 x 73 mm]. xx, 339, [1] pp. xxvii, [i], 530 pp. Bound in contemporary (?) half blue goatskin, blue cloth sides, the spines divided into six panels with gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second, third and fourth panels, pale marbled endleaves, top edges gilt, the others uncut.
London: [printed by Savill, Edwards and Co. for] John Camden Hotten [1874].
A very good copy, which remains partly unopened. A facsimile reprint of Thomas Park's edition of 1817. Bookplate and shelf labels of F. Reddaway.
Stock no. ebc4362
Containing several pieces of poetic wit. By Sr. J. M. and Ja. S. 1656. Wit Restor'd, in several select poems, not formerly publish't. 1658. Wits Recreations, selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses. With a thousand out-landish proverbs. 1640. New Edition. With additional Notes, Indexes, and a portrait of Sir John Mennis, Kt.
Frontispiece portrait in vol.1, woodcut illustrations in vol.2.
Two volumes. 8vo. [220 x 170 x 73 mm]. xx, 339, [1] pp. xxvii, [i], 530 pp. Bound in contemporary (?) half blue goatskin, blue cloth sides, the spines divided into six panels with gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second, third and fourth panels, pale marbled endleaves, top edges gilt, the others uncut.
London: [printed by Savill, Edwards and Co. for] John Camden Hotten [1874].
A very good copy, which remains partly unopened. A facsimile reprint of Thomas Park's edition of 1817. Bookplate and shelf labels of F. Reddaway.
Stock no. ebc4362
Containing several pieces of poetic wit. By Sr. J. M. and Ja. S. 1656. Wit Restor'd, in several select poems, not formerly publish't. 1658. Wits Recreations, selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses. With a thousand out-landish proverbs. 1640. New Edition. With additional Notes, Indexes, and a portrait of Sir John Mennis, Kt.
Frontispiece portrait in vol.1, woodcut illustrations in vol.2.
Two volumes. 8vo. [220 x 170 x 73 mm]. xx, 339, [1] pp. xxvii, [i], 530 pp. Bound in contemporary (?) half blue goatskin, blue cloth sides, the spines divided into six panels with gilt tooled bands, lettered in the second, third and fourth panels, pale marbled endleaves, top edges gilt, the others uncut.
London: [printed by Savill, Edwards and Co. for] John Camden Hotten [1874].
A very good copy, which remains partly unopened. A facsimile reprint of Thomas Park's edition of 1817. Bookplate and shelf labels of F. Reddaway.
Stock no. ebc4362