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STUBBES, Philip (fl. 1581-1593). The Anatomie of Abuses ... made Dialogue-wise. London: Richard Jones, 16 August 1583.
8o (146 x 94 mm). Collation: A4 B-R8. Black letter, with dedication and address to the reader in roman. Woodblock of an Elizabethan gentleman on verso of final leaf. (Old repairs to margins of B1, lower corner of N6, and outer margin of final leaf, some cropping of numerals and to a lesser extent running titles and shoulder notes, page edges browned.) 19th-century brown morocco gilt (joints rubbed). Provenance: 19th-century bibliographical note on front blank, referring to auction prices and the account of the book given in Dibdin's Bibliomania -- Basil Blackwell (bookplate) -- C.H. Wilkinson (bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1970 to John F. Fleming, New York -- purchased from Fleming, 28 April 1970.
Second edition. The first was published on 1 May 1583. A third and fourth edition of Stubbes's notorious invective against the Elizabethan stage followed in 1584-85 and 1595. Quite apart from castigating comedies and tragedies, players, writers, theatres and audiences with Jeremian fury, he also denounces dress, ornament, "newfangleness," looking-glasses, prostitution, drink, gaming, dancing, May-games, "reading of wicked bookes," and "Foot ball play." All this had made his book valued for "the encylopaedic information it supplies as to manners, customes, and fashions in England towards the end of the 16th century" (DNB). Grolier Langland to Wither 240; STC 23377.
8o (146 x 94 mm). Collation: A4 B-R8. Black letter, with dedication and address to the reader in roman. Woodblock of an Elizabethan gentleman on verso of final leaf. (Old repairs to margins of B1, lower corner of N6, and outer margin of final leaf, some cropping of numerals and to a lesser extent running titles and shoulder notes, page edges browned.) 19th-century brown morocco gilt (joints rubbed). Provenance: 19th-century bibliographical note on front blank, referring to auction prices and the account of the book given in Dibdin's Bibliomania -- Basil Blackwell (bookplate) -- C.H. Wilkinson (bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1970 to John F. Fleming, New York -- purchased from Fleming, 28 April 1970.
Second edition. The first was published on 1 May 1583. A third and fourth edition of Stubbes's notorious invective against the Elizabethan stage followed in 1584-85 and 1595. Quite apart from castigating comedies and tragedies, players, writers, theatres and audiences with Jeremian fury, he also denounces dress, ornament, "newfangleness," looking-glasses, prostitution, drink, gaming, dancing, May-games, "reading of wicked bookes," and "Foot ball play." All this had made his book valued for "the encylopaedic information it supplies as to manners, customes, and fashions in England towards the end of the 16th century" (DNB). Grolier Langland to Wither 240; STC 23377.