Elizabethan England in gentle and simple life.
Subtitle: Being I. England's address to her three daughters, the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn: from Polimanteia, 1595. II. A quest of enquirie by women to know whether the tripe-woman was trimmed, 1595.
By: ed., with introduction and notes and illustratins, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.
Contributors: Clerke, William, fl. 1595, supposed author.
Publisher: Printed for the subscribers [by C.E. Simms, Manchester]
Published: 1881
Place of publication: [Blackburn, Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century
Other titles: Polimanteia.; England's address to her three daughters.; A quest of enquirie.
Notes: Page 279 (i.e. 179) bound in v. 38 in the University of Cincinnati set.
Issued in two parts, and the last page (279, i.e. 179) in 1883, with no. 38 of the series ("Fly-leaves, or Additional notes and illustrations".)
"Limited to sixty-two copies--fifty ... [to subscribers] and twelve editor's copies. This copy not numbered.
With reproductions of original title-pages: (1) Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to ivdge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age. Whereunto is added, A letter from Engla d to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants ... Printed by Iohn Legate, Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. 1595. And are to be sold ... in London. (2) a Quest of Enguirie, by women to know, Whether the Tripe-wife were trimmed by Doll yea or no. Gathered by Oliuer Oat-meale. Imprinted at London by T.G. and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, 1595.
Error in paging: p. 179 numbered 279.
The dedication to Polimanteia is signed W.C., and the work has been ascribed to William Clerke or Clarke.