Huth copy.- [Hausted (Peter)] Ad Populum: or, A Lecture

Huth copy.- [Hausted (Peter)] Ad Populum: or, A Lecture to the People, first edition, woodcut device on title, final blank leaf C2 present, later vellum boards, a little soiled, [Wing H1154; Madan II, 1636], 4to, Printed in the Yeare, [Oxford, printed by Henry Hall], 1644.

⁂ "A vigorous satire in verse on the state of the kingdom, not quite rough or coarse enough in style to be John Taylor's (as Thomason thought), but homely, plain, and direct...There are some interesting references, as to Christmas games in the country, which are named (p.2), and to Cotton's Library, already famous (p.12). There can be no doubt that the author was Peter Hausted..." (Madan).

Provenance: Henry Huth (bookplate, this copy sold at Sotheby's in his sale on 15th November 1911)