Wit a sporting In a pleasant grove of new fancies. By H. B.

8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. 112 (pp. 110-111 called 96-93), f. [1] (blank). Straight-grain morocco. Gilt on boards, spine, edges. Includes headpieces. Bound by C. Smith. The Perry–Heber–Britwell–George Thorn-Drury–John Brett-Smith copy, one of three known; without the engraved portrait of Christian Raue or Ravis, fictitiously relabelled as Bold, which is found in the other two (British Library [lacking two leaves of text], and Harvard); cf. W.C. Hazlitt, Handbook to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain. London, 1867, p. 44, and Corser, Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, part 2 (1861), pp. 310-312.

Plagiarism by Bold (or his publisher) from Herrick and Thomas Beedome, so flagrant as to be considered forgery. See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), B3476; Grolier Club, New York, Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Wither to Prior. 3 vols. New York, 1905, 50; ESTC, R18439.

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