Wits common wealth.
Subtitle: a treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies and sentences, generally vsefull : but more particularly published for the vse of schooles
By: by F.M. ...
Contributors: Stansby, William, fl. 1597-1638, printer.; Royston, Richard, 1599-1686, bookseller.; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by William Stansby and are to be sold by Richard Royston ...
Published: 1634
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 741
Subjects: Commonplace-books; Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800; Theater -- England -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Witts academy, a treasurie of goulden sentences, similies, and examples
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 17835
"To the reader" signed: Francis Meres.
The 1st ed. appeared in 1598 under title: Palladis tamia. It formed the second volume in a series of which Politeuphuia, wits commonwealth, 1597, usually ascribed to John Bodenham, was the first: Wits theater of the little world, 1599 (by Robert Allott), the third; and Palladis Palatium, wisedoms pallace, 1604, the fourth. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Signatures: A⁸ B-2I¹² 2K⁴(-K4).
Includes the famous "Comparatiue discourse of our English poets with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian poets" (p. 616-635) containing a number of references to Shakespeare.
Includes index.
LC copy has ink stamp: Bound by F. Bedford.