Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen
By: edited by Edwin Johnston Howard.
Contributors: Howard, Edwin Johnston, 1901- editor.
Publisher: The Anchor press
Published: 1942
Place of publication: Oxford, O
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Costume -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: A glasse, to view the pride of vainglorious women.
Notes: Bibliography included in introduction (p. xvi-xx)
Generally ascribed to Stephen Gosson on the basis of an inscription on the title-page of a copy of a copy of the 1596 edition claimed by John Payne Collier to be in Gosson's own handwriting. The inscription is now considered by some to be a Collier forgery. cf. Introd.
A page-for-page reprint of the Huntington library copy of the 1595 edition, with reproductions of the first and second title-pages: (1) Quippes for vpstart newfangled gentlewomen, 1595: (2) A glasse, to view the pride of vainglorious women ... Imprinted at London by Richard Ihones, at the Signe of the Rose and crowne, neere to S. Andrewes church in Holborne, 1595.
"This edition is limited to two hundred copies; this is no. 13."