Politeuphuia, wits common-wealth: or, a treasury of divine, moral, historical and political admonitions, similies and sentences. For the use of schools.

General note: With an additional, engraved title page signed: F. H. van Hove sculp: "The epistle dedicatory" and "To the reader" signed: N.L. Usually ascribed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection, though the work appears to have been done by Nicholas Ling. cf. Dedication; also DNB. Often cited as Wits' commonwealth, and some editions appeared under that title. Published first in 1597, as the first in a series of which Mere's "Palladis Tamia," 1598, was the second; "Wits Theater of the little world," by Robert Allott, 1598, the third; and "Palladis Palatium. Wisedoms Pallace," 1604, the fourth. cf. DNB. With index and final advertisement leaf. Signatures: A-O12; -O12 (advertisement leaf); MS. ink notes on front fly leaf UK-SuSCL Cited in: Wing (2nd ed.), L2348 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms International, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 1552:10). Ownership and custodial history: With a copy of Robert Southey's bookplate pasted on t.p. verso, but no other indication of provenance before 1889; bookplate of George Edmund Benbow on inside front board, dated in MS. pencil: "Sale 1st Nov. 1889"; donated by Sir Sidney Lee, 1926 UK-SuSCL