The wits, or, Sport upon sport
Subtitle: being a curious collection of several drols and farces : presented and shewn for the merriment and delight of wise men, and the ignorant ...
By:  written I know not when, by several persons, I know not who, but now newly collected by your old friend to please you, Francis Kirkman
Contributors: Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner; S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm)
Publisher: Printed for Fran. Kirkman, and are to be sold by most book-sellers
Published: 1673
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Other titles: Sport upon sport; Wits; Black man; Venus and Adonis; Maid's philosophy; Philetis and Constantia; King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther; King Solomon's wisdom; Diphilo and Grandia; Wiltshire Tom; Oenone, a pastoral; Merry conceited humours of Bottom the Weaver; Bottom the Weaver; Cheater cheated; Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Wits
Notes: The words "in London ... at other" are bracketed together on title page.

Another imposition in octavo format was published in the same year.--Cf. ESTC

In two parts; the first part was originally published in 1662 (Wing W2318).

Signatures: A-H́þ

Part II of The wits, or, Sport upon sport, containing ten drolls ascribed to Robert Cox and collected by Kirkman.

" ... as they have been sundry times acted in publique, and private : {in London at Bartholomew, in the countrey at other} faires : in halls and taverns, on several mountebancks stages, at Charing Cross, Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and other places, by several stroleing [sic] players, fools, and fidlers, and the mountebancks zanies, with loud laughter, and great applause ..."--Title page

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W3220A

ESTC R012347

NUC pre-1956 NW0395850

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early calfskin triple-panelled in blind with extensive floral tooling. The spine has been rebacked. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown and the ink stamp of the 3rd Duke of Roxburghe is present on the title page verso. An auctioneer's description, published by Sotheby & Wilkinson for the Halliwell sale of May, 1857, and inscribed, with pricing information, in the hand of Thomas Pennant Barton, is also present on the front pastedown.
Table of contents: title: The black man; title: Venus and Adonis, or, The maid's philosophy; title: Philetis and Constantia; title: King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther; title: King Solomon's wisdom; title: Diphilo and Granida; title: Wiltshire Tom; title: Oenone, a pastoral; title: The merry conceited humours of Bottom the Weaver; title: The cheater cheated.