The Batchelars banquet, or, A Banquet for batchelars
Subtitle: wherein is prepared sundry daintie dishes to furnish their table, curiously drest, and seriously serued in : pleasantly discoursing the variable humours of women, their quicknesse of wittes, and vnsearchable deceits
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1790:18
Publisher: Printed by T.C. and are to be solde by T.P.
Published: 1603
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Marriage; Early works to 1800; Women; Humor
Other titles: Banquet for batchelars.; Quinze joies de mariage. English.
Notes: "View them well, but taste not, regard them well, but waste not."

Signatures: A-K⁴ (last leaf blank).

Printer's mark (McK.299) on t.-p.

In this edition, G1 has catchword "there"; another edition has catchword "busines" and has incorrect reading "dainties" on t.-p.

"A trans., not by Dekker but prob. by R. Tofte, of Les quinze joyes de mariage, sometimes attrib to A. de La sale ..."--STC (2nd ed.)

STC (2nd ed.) suggests that Creede printed only quires A-D.

STC (2nd ed.) 6476.2

From the collection of William Augustus White, acq. 8 February 1929.

Bookplate of Frederick Locker.

Signed "frances wolfreston h[…?]" on A3r; inscription washed and partially trimmed away; signed "frances Wolferstan / Wolferston" thrice with accompanying pen trials on K3v (last page).

Imperfect: t.-p. wanting, supplied in facsimile.

Full polished calf by "Tuckett Binder to the Queen".