The literary museum
Subtitle: or, A selection of scarce old tracts
Publisher: Printed for the editor
Published: 1792
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Notes: Published 1789-92.  Most of the tracts have special titles and separate paging.

Dedication and advertisement signed by F.G. Waldron.

Contains also original poems by the editor on the illness of George III.

ESTC N19229.

Copy 1 Note: Last 2 sections wanting, containing Downes's Roscius Anglicanus, appendix, and 2 poems by the editor (supplied in photocopy).  In pt. 4 (Peacham) pp. 23-26 are cancels.

Copy 2 Note: Pts. 2 (Gascoyne), 4 (Peacham), 6 (Ceremonies), 7 (Lydgate), and part of 8 (T. Heywood, The King in the country) only.  In pt. 4 cancellanda for pp. 23-26 are present as well as cancels.
Table of contents: title: 1. The right renoumyde ladies, translated from Boccace.; title: 2. A delicate diet for dainty-mouthed droonkardes, by Gascoyne.; title: 3. Poems of Spenser, not in any edition.; title: 4. Peacham's period of mourning, in six visions.; title: 5. Specimen of a new edition of Ben Jonson.; title: 6. Ceremonies used for healing the King's evil, consecrating cramp rings, etc.; title: 7. On Lydgate's travelling into France.; title: 8. The new Arcadia, by Belcher.; title: 9. Downe's Roscius Anglicus; or, Theatrical history, &c. &c.