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[BRATHWAITE, Richard (1588?-1673)]. Ar't Asleepe Husband: A boulster lecture stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages. London: by R[ichard] Bishop for R[ichard] B[est], 1640.
8° (172 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece by W. Marshall. Title with woodcut border of royal crests. Text within ruled borders, woodcut headbands and initials. With blank X8. (Washed, C3 affected by paper fault, Y1 ragged at lower margin, some residual soil marks.) Modern gilt-panelled red morocco, gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION of Brathwaite's good-humoured satire on women (this copy collates with Pforzheimer, and does not contain the final quire Z of two leaves called for by Grolier). Another of this author's comic works was Barnabees Journal (1638), written in Latin and English doggerel verse, which enjoyed great vogue in the 18th century as Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North. Grolier Wither to Prior 86; Pforzheimer 76; STC 3555.
8° (172 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece by W. Marshall. Title with woodcut border of royal crests. Text within ruled borders, woodcut headbands and initials. With blank X8. (Washed, C3 affected by paper fault, Y1 ragged at lower margin, some residual soil marks.) Modern gilt-panelled red morocco, gilt edges.
FIRST EDITION of Brathwaite's good-humoured satire on women (this copy collates with Pforzheimer, and does not contain the final quire Z of two leaves called for by Grolier). Another of this author's comic works was Barnabees Journal (1638), written in Latin and English doggerel verse, which enjoyed great vogue in the 18th century as Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North. Grolier Wither to Prior 86; Pforzheimer 76; STC 3555.
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