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Breton, Nicholas
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- Breton, Nicholas
- Wits Trenchmour, in a conference had betwixt a Scoller and an Angler. At London, printed by I. Robarts for N. Ling, and are to be sold at his shop at the VVeft doore of Paules Church, 1597.
- Ink, paper and cow
8vo (6 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.; 171 x 113 mm.). Woodcut vignette on title and initials. Eighteenth-century half calf, title label "Miscellaneous."
[Bound with]:
Richard Bentley (under the peudonym of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis). Remarks Upon a late Discourse of Free-thinking: in a letter to F.H.D.D. London: John Morphew and E. Curll, 1713. — William Wotton. Defense of the Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, in answer to the Objections of Sir W. Temple, and others with Observations upon the Tale of a Tub. London: Tim. Goodwin, 1705. — M., D.F.R [James Lea]. An Answer to the untruthes, published in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie against our English navie. London, J. Jackson, T. Cadman, 1589. Lacking title-page. (STC 17132).
Nineteenth-century half calf.
[Bound with]:
Richard Bentley (under the peudonym of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis). Remarks Upon a late Discourse of Free-thinking: in a letter to F.H.D.D. London: John Morphew and E. Curll, 1713. — William Wotton. Defense of the Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, in answer to the Objections of Sir W. Temple, and others with Observations upon the Tale of a Tub. London: Tim. Goodwin, 1705. — M., D.F.R [James Lea]. An Answer to the untruthes, published in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie against our English navie. London, J. Jackson, T. Cadman, 1589. Lacking title-page. (STC 17132).
Nineteenth-century half calf.
Provenance
Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate). acquisition: Maggs, 2006
Literature
STC 3713; Lowndes I, 263
Catalogue Note
Extremely rare publication by Breton. Lowndes refers to a copy sold in 1838 as "supposed unique."