A quip for an vpstart courtier, or, A quaint dispute between veluet breeches and cloth-breeches
Subtitle: wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1174:03
Publisher: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, and are to bee sold at his shop at Poules chayne
Published: 1592
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Social life and customs; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Quip for an upstart courtier; Quaint dispute between velvet breeches and cloth-breeches; The debate between Pride and Lowliness.
Notes: Dedication signed: Robert Greene.

Woodcut ill. on t.p.

Signatures: A-F⁴.

Based in large part upon "The debate between Pride and Lowliness" sometimes attributed to Francis Thynne.

Formerly STC 12301.

"A-F⁴; D3r catchword: 'commodity,' (w[ith] comma). Quires A-B are largely reimposed from [STC] 12301a."--STC (2nd ed.)

Contains an attack on Gabriel Harvey and his brothers.

For a bibliography of the various 1592 editions of this work, see E. H. Miller, "The editions of Robert Greene's A quip for an upstart courtier (1592)" in Studies in bibliography, v. 6 (1954) p. 107-116; this copy corresponds to Miller's Q4 (see his list of variants between this copy & the Ashley copy in the BM).

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STC (2nd ed.) 12301a.3

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