Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Image Title:
The wits, or Sport upon sport. London, 1662
Image Details:
title page and frontis, from a 4x5 color transparency
Source Creator:
Kirkman, Francis
Source Title:
[Wits. Part 1.] The wits, or, Sport upon sport.
Source Created or Published:
1662
Physical Description:
title page and frontis
Source Call Number:
W3218
Digital Image File Name:
3031
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
153991
Hamnet Holdings ID:
148870
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Wits.
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Wits. Part 1.
Title (Hamnet):
Sport upon sport
Title (Hamnet):
The wits, or, Sport upon sport. In select pieces of drollery, digested into scenes by way of dialogue. Together with variety of humors of several nations, fitted for the pleasure and content of all persons, either in court, city, countrey, or camp. The like never before published. Part I.
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
printed for Henry Marsh, at the sign of the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
1662.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[8], 186, [10] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 8⁰.
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
cs293. Binding signed by P. Riach. Variant. See card catalogue for bibliographic references. Frontis. may be from another copy of 1672 ed.; cf. Folger Art Box L847t1 R1 no.1-2 for another version of frontis. Provenance: bookplate of Henry Irving
Notes (Hamnet):
"A collection of 27 drolls, some taken from plays by Shakespeare and others. Five of them were previously issued with the title: Actæon and Diana, by Robert Cox. The compilation has been attributed to Francis Kirkman"--NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Notes (Hamnet):
A second part was published in 1673.
Notes (Hamnet):
Caption title, p. 1: The bouncing knight, or, The robers rob'd.
Notes (Hamnet):
Leaves H5,6 misimposed. Variant: leaves H5,6 are cancelled and replaced with bifolium in which imposition has been corrected.
Notes (Hamnet):
Preface signed by the publisher, Henry Marsh.
Notes (Hamnet):
With an engraved frontispiece (A1v).
Notes (Hamnet):
With five final advertisement leaves.
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) R38726
Citations (Hamnet):
Greg, III, p. 1044-45
Citations (Hamnet):
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W3218
Citations (Hamnet):
Woodward & McManaway, 1313
Subject (Hamnet):
Booksellers advertisements. rbgenr
Subject (Hamnet):
Drolls -- Early works to 1800.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Cox, Robert, d. 1655.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Kirkman, Francis, 1632-ca. 1680, comp.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Marsh, Henry, fl. 1663-1664.
Call Number (Hamnet):
W3218

[Wits. Part 1.] The wits, or, Sport upon sport.