Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury Being the Second part of Wits Common
wealth. By Francis Meres Maister of Artes of both Vniuersities. Viuitur
ingenio, cætera mortis erunt. _At London Printed by P. Short, for
Cuthbert Burbie, and are to be solde at his shop at the Royall
Exchange._ 1598.
8^o. (5 × 3-1/8). *. 16.
Collation: A^4B-2V^8, folios numbered. List of authors. At the end,
alphabetical table of headings. In this copy the list of authors,
occupying leaves A 2-4, is misplaced at the end of the volume. The
famous 'comparatiue discourse of our English Poets, with the
Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets' occurs at sig. 2N 7. First
edition. 'Wits Common wealth' of which the present work purports to
be the continuation, was written by John Bodenham.
Sinker 775. BM 1093.