The unfortunate traveller; or, The life of Jacke Wilton / by Thomas Nashe: illustrated by Michael Ayrton, with an introduction
1948, 1st Edition in this form. [London] : J. Lehmann. Very good copy in the original title-labelled cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 121 pages; Description: 121 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: English prose - Elizabethan Era - English Renaissance. Nash, Thomas, - 1567-1601. Prose in English, 1558-1625 - Texts. Summary: The sharp and grotesque tale of Jack Wilton, an Englishman travelling through Europe. "The present text follows that of the second edition printed in London by T. Scarlet for C. Bury in 1594 as amended by H. F. G. Brett-Smith in his edition for the Percy reprints." --Introd., p. 10. Item #183079
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