Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.
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Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; English wit and humor; Songs, English -- Texts
It is printed on Ribbed Toned paper, and the Impression is limited to 400
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ROBERT ROBERTS, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.
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☞ This series of Re-prints from the rare _Drolleries_ is now completed
in Three Volumes (of which the first published was the _Westminster
Drollery_): that number being sufficient to afford a correct picture
of the times preceding and following the Restoration 1660, without
repetition. The third volume contains “_Choice Drollery_,” 1656, and
all of the “_Antidote against Melancholy_,” 1661, which has not been
already included in the two previous volumes; with separate Notes, and
Illustrations drawn from other contemporary Drolleries.
_OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, &c._
“Strafford Lodge, Oatlands Park,
Surrey, Feb. 4, 1875.
DEAR SIR,
I received the “Westminster Drolleries” yesterday evening. I have spent
nearly the whole of this day in reading it. I can but give unqualified
praise to the editor, both for his extensive knowledge and for his
admirable style. The printing and the paper do great credit to your
press.... I enclose a post-office order to pay for my copy.
Yours truly,
WM. CHAPPELL.”
Mr. Robert Roberts.
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_From J. O. Halliwell, Esqre._
“No. 11, Tregunter Road, West Brompton,
London, S. W.,
25th Feby. 1875.
DEAR SIR,
I am charmed with the edition of the “Westminster Drollery.” One half
of the reprints of the present day are rendered nearly useless to exact
students either by alterations or omissions, or by attempts to make
eclectic texts out of more than one edition. By all means let us have
introductions and notes, especially when as good as Mr. Ebsworth’s, but
it is essential for objects of reference that one edition only of the old
text be accurately reproduced. The book is certainly admirably edited.
Yours truly,
J. O. PHILLIPPS.”
To Mr. R. Roberts.
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_From F. J. Furnivall, Esq._
“3, St. George’s Square, Primrose Hill, London, N.W.,
2nd February, 1875.
MY DEAR SIR,
I have received the handsome large paper copy of your “Westminster
Drolleries.” I am very glad to see that the book is really _edited_, and
that well, by a man so thoroughly up in the subject as Mr. Ebsworth.
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