A dialogue bytwene the commune secretary and Jalowsye, Touchynge the unstablenesst of Harlottes

8vo. pp. iv, f. [1], pp. [6].

Privately issued reprint of a tract, debatably attributed by John Payne Collier, to Edward Gosynhill. Collier professed that he had not followed the copy in part IV of the Richard Heber rare books collection of early English poetry, drama, and popular literature, to which auction catalogue Collier had contributed. Instead, Collier claimed to have followed another one ‘in the hands of a gentleman, who has liberally allowed it to be reprinted.’ However, only the Heber-Britwell-British Library copy is now known. According to Collier’s manuscript note in every copy, the edition of his reprint was limited to 25 copies. There are three copies in this collection. The present is in original morocco-backed boards and is inscribed by John Payne Collier to W.B.D.D. Turnbull. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A58.

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