Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth, or, A treasury of divine, moral, historical, and political admonitions, similies, and sentences : for the use of schools.

Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth, or, A treasury of divine, moral, historical, and political admonitions, similies, and sentences : for the use of schools.

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Author / Creator:N. L. (Nicholas Ling), active 1580-1607.
Edition:Newly revised.
Imprint:London : Printed by J.H. for W. Freeman ..., 1699.
Description:1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 321, 6 unnumbered pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Aphorisms and apothegms.
Aphorisms and apothegms.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11652839
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Other title:Wits common-wealth.
Treasury of divine, moral, historical, and political admonitions.
Other authors / contributors:Bodenham, John, active 1600.
Notes:"The epistle dedicatory" and "To the reader" signed: N.L.
Usually ascribed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection, though the work appears to have been done by Nicholas Ling. cf. Dedication; also DNB.
Often cited as Wits' commonwealth, and some editions appeared under that title. Published first in 1597, as the first in a series of which Mere's "Palladis Tamia," 1598, was the second; "Wits Theater of the little world," by Robert Allott, 1598, the third; and "Palladis Palatium. Wisedoms Pallace," 1604, the fourth. cf. DNB.
Includes index.
Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
Wing L2348

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