The schollers purgatory
Subtitle: discouered in the Stationers common-wealth, and discribed in a discourse apologeticall, asvvell for the publike aduantage of the Church, the state & vvhole common-vvealth of England, as for the remedy of priuate iniuryes
By: By Geo: VVither
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Imprinted [by G. Wood] for the honest Stationers
Published: 1624
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Copyright; Stationers' Company (London, England)
Notes: A defense of Wither's patent for his: The hymnes and songs of the Church.

Printer's name and publication date from STC.

Quires A-D are apparently from one type font and E-I from another, with quire (.)̇⁴ possibly printed at the second press (STC).

STC (2nd ed.) 25919.

Very rare. British Museum has a copy and Bindley has seen no other, except his own copy. - see MS. note on fly leaf, and Lowndes.

"This curious little volume is a severe invective against printers, stationers, booksellers and binders, who are charged with slandering poor Wither and conspiring against him and his "Hymnes and Songs of the Church". - MS notes on fly leaf.