The shoole of abuse
Subtitle: conteining a plesaunt inuectiue against poets, pipers, plaiers, iesters, and such like caterpillers of a co[m]monwelth, setting vp the flagge of defiance to their mischieuous exercise, & ouerthrowing their bulwarkes, by prophane, writers, naturall reason, and common experience : a discourse as pleasaunt for gentlemen that fauour learning, as profitable for all that wyll follow vertue
By: by Stephen Gosson. stud. Oxon
Publisher: by [Thomas Dawson for] Thomas Woodcocke
Published: 1579
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Poetry; Moral and ethical aspects; Theater
Other titles: Schoole of abuse
Notes: Signatures: [hand]⁸, A-E⁸, F⁴ ([hand]1 & 8 blank).

Leaves 34 & 36 misnumbered 33 & 35.

"Tp border has no init[ial]s; B3r line 1 ends: 'coun-'. Copies vary; in line 9 of title 'Prophane' is without or with a comma; B3r headline has 'abuse.' or 'Abuse.'."--STC (2nd ed.)

In this edition, line 1 on recto of A2 begins "in describing his gnatte"; in another edition (unrecorded in STC) it begins "bestirreth him to paint out his flea".

Printer's name from STC (2nd ed.)

STC (2nd ed.) 12097

From the collection of William Augustus White.

In this copy, line 9 of title is with a comma and the headline of B3r has "Abuse."

Imperfect: [hand] 1 & 8 (blank) wanting; t.-p. slightly mutilated and mounted; D4 wanting, supplied in facsimile; D5 mutilated, restored in manuscript facsimile; E6-8, F⁴ wanting.

"Photostat facsimile [positive] reproduced from the copy in the library collected by W.A. White." This copy is now in the Harvard College Library.

In this copy, line 9 of title is with a comma and the headline of B3r has "Abuse."

Imperfect: in the original [hand] 1 and 8 (blank) wanting; the title page is slightly mutilated and mounted; D4 wanting, supplied in manuscript facsimile; D5 mutilated, restored in manuscript facsimile; E6-8, F⁴ wanting.