Pierce Penniless’s supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash. From the first edition of 1592, compared with later impressions. With an introduction and notes, by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.
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- Pierce Penniless’s supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash. From the first edition of 1592, compared with later impressions. With an introduction and notes, by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.
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Pierce Penniless’s supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash. From the first edition of 1592, compared with later impressions. With an introduction and notes, by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.
Author: Nashe, Thomas ; Collier, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.)
Year: 1842
8vo. pp. xxxii, 108. Original cloth. With reproduction of original title page: Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the deuill. Describing the ouer-spreading of Vice, and the suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with variable delights: and pathetically intermixt with conceipted reproofes. Written by Thomas Nash, Gentleman. London, Imprinted by Richard Ihones [...] 1592. First modern edition of the work, instigated and prepared by John Payne Collier, primarily based on McKerrow’s ‘A’ (STC 18371), the earliest copy-text. See also A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 375; II, A50.
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