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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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Thomas NasheJ. Payne (John Payne) (ed.) Collier1 editions

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 375; II, A50.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><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></span></span></p>

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