Pierce Penniless’s supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash. From the first edition of 1592, compared with later impressions. With an introduction and notes, by J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A.

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8vo. pp. xxxii, 108. Original cloth. With reproduction of original title page: Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the deuill. Describing the ouer-spreading of Vice, and the suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with variable delights: and pathetically intermixt with conceipted reproofes. Written by Thomas Nash, Gentleman. London, Imprinted by Richard Ihones [...] 1592. First modern edition of the work, instigated and prepared by John Payne Collier, primarily based on McKerrow’s ‘A’ (STC 18371), the earliest copy-text. See also A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 375; II, A50. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.