PROTEUS REDIVIVUS : or THE ART OF WHEEDLING, or INSINUATION, obtain'd by general conversation. HEAD, Richard.

TITLE CONTINUED: And extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation. Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the ENGLISH ROGUE. FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICKY JAY, WITH HIS BOOKPLATE ON FIRST PASTEDOWN, THER IS ALSO A BOOKPLATE OF THE WARWICKSHIRE CASTLE SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY WHICH WAS SOLD TO THE FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY. As our copy is DEFECTIVE it seems the Folger rejected it. It has a Shakespeare quote from Love's Labour's Lost on page 55: "FAT PAUNCHES MAKE LEAN PATES, AND GROSSER BITS ENRICH THE RIBS, BUT BANKRUPT QUITE THE WITS". LACKING 4 LEAVES, FACISMILES INSERTED (F6, K2, L2 an N1). Small 8vo, approximately 160 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, pages: [16], 1-352, bound in quarter calf over marbled boards. Binding very worn with amateur repair with strips of leather holding book together, vertical crack to spine, shelf wear to corners and edges, inner paper hinges front and rear cracked and strengthened by strip of brown linen, lower corner of title page neatly repaired, corners repaired to blank free endpaper, with a few cracks to gatherings in text, no loose pages, pale age-browning to text, head of title page trimmed affecting first line of text, ink note to first free endpaper, occasional brown or ink spot. A poor copy of a scarce edition with provenence. Library Hub Discover list the British Library copy of 1679 only, The Author's Epistle signed R. H. and attributed by Wing to Richard Head, Volume 2, page 171, No.1273; William Jaggard, Shakespeare Bibliography, A Dictionary of Every Known Issue of the Writings of our National Poet and of Recorded Opinions Thereon in the English Language, page 146, listing this edition; ESTC 19841. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.