Kirkman, Francis

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Description

Kirkman, Francis
The Wits, or, Sport upon Sport. In Selected Pieces of Drollery, digested into scenes by way of Dialogue... London: by E[dward]. C[rouch]. for Francis Kirkman, next door to the sign of the Princes Arms, in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1672. [Bound with]: The wits, or, Sport upon sport. Being a curious collection of several drols and farces, presented and shewn for the merriment and delight of wise men, and the ignorant: as they have been sundry times acted in publique, and private, in London at Bartholomew in the countre at other faires. In halls and taverns. On several mountebancks stages, at Charing Cross, Lincolns-Inn-Fields, and other places. By several stroleing players, fools, and fidlers, and the mountebancks zanies. With loud laughter, and great applause. London: for Fran. Kirkman, and are to be sold by most book-sellers, 1673
ink, paper, leather

8vo (6 1/2 x 4 ins.; 167 x 101 mm). Engraved plate of players on the stage including Falstaff, a changling and a fool; paper flaw to title of second work, minor worming in upper fore-margin throughout but not affecting text, one leaf with a closed tear in lower margin. Contemporary calf; rebacked.

Provenance

acquisition: Peter Murray Hill, 1963

Literature

Wing K 3219, 3220; ESTC R204081, R12292; Greg, III, p. 1046

Catalogue Note

First edition of the second title.