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.

Thomas Nashe, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) Collier

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Pierce Penniless’s supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash....Thomas Nashe, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) Collier

Thomas Nashe, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) CollierPublished 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. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039648889707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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Publisher	Reprinted for the Shakespeare Society F. Shoberl, Jun. … Printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert
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