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Ruggle (George) Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Regia

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[Ruggle (George)] Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Regia Maiestate Jacobi Regis Angliae, second edition, engraved frontispiece, with 2 (of 3) blanks at end, light browning and damp-staining, ink inscriptions near-contemporary hands to title, endpapers and a few other ff., later calf-backed boards, neatly rebacked, rubbed, later endpapers, [STC 21446], 12mo, typis T. H., 1630.

⁂ Scarce satire on lawyers modelled on the 1596 Italian comedy La Trappolaria by Giovanni Battista della Porta.

Provenance: Ralph Farthing; Thomas Purchas; James Rawson; Francis Rogers; Andrew Lynch, Will Purchas (ink inscription); pencil note to endpaper "Woodruff copy".


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[Ruggle (George)] Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Regia Maiestate Jacobi Regis Angliae, second edition, engraved frontispiece, with 2 (of 3) blanks at end, light browning and damp-staining, ink inscriptions near-contemporary hands to title, endpapers and a few other ff., later calf-backed boards, neatly rebacked, rubbed, later endpapers, [STC 21446], 12mo, typis T. H., 1630.

⁂ Scarce satire on lawyers modelled on the 1596 Italian comedy La Trappolaria by Giovanni Battista della Porta.

Provenance: Ralph Farthing; Thomas Purchas; James Rawson; Francis Rogers; Andrew Lynch, Will Purchas (ink inscription); pencil note to endpaper "Woodruff copy".

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