Witts academy
Subtitle: a treasurie of goulden sentences similies and examples
By: set forth cheefely for the benefitt of young schollers by Fr. M. Mr. of Arts of both Vniuersities
Contributors: Droeshout, John, -1652, engraver; N. L. (Nicholas Ling), active 1580-1607; Candler, Phillip, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: [By William Stansby] for Richard Royston
Published: 1636
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 741
Subjects: Aphorisms and apothegms; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Palladis tamia; Wits treasury; Wits common wealth. Part 2; Wits common vvealth. The second part; Wits common wealth. The second part
Work titles: Palladis tamia
Notes: "To the reader" signed: Francis Meres.

Number 2 in the "Wits" series, presented as a sequel to "Politeuphuia" by Nicholas Ling.

Originally published in 1584 as: Palladis tamia.

Signatures: Áı B-2I℗£℗ø 2Ḱþ (2k4=blank)

Engraved title page signed Io: Droeshout, scul. ; headpieces; initials.

Includes index.

A reissue of "Wits common vvealth. The second part", 1634, with engraved title page canceling the letterpress one. The title page is signed "Io: Droeshout scul"; the imprint date is altered in the plate from "1635."

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 158

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 17836

English short title catalogue, entry S123173

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.4076.1 bound in late-19th-century tan buckram. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. The autograph of P[hilli]p Candler is present on the front flyleaf recto. The final leaf (blank) is wanting.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.76.30 contains pages 615-640 only and is halfbound in ca. 19th-century morocco-grained leather and marbled paper. The bookplate of the BPL Phillips Fund, dated  April 2, 1881, is present on the front pastedown. The early autograph "John Umbrey hi book" is present on 2E4 recto.