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The liar, or, A contradiction to those who in the titles of their bookes affirmed them to be true, when they were false although mine are all true, yet I terme them lyes. Veritas veritatis
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The liar, or, A contradiction to those who in the titles of their bookes affirmed them to be true, when they were false although mine are all true, yet I terme them lyes. Veritas veritatis.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], printed in the yeare 1641.
Physical Description
[8] pages : illustration ; 22 cm (4to).
Local Notes
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare26 21-0043 copy is purchased from William S. Cotter Rare Books in November, 2021.
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare26 21-0043 copy includes on front pastedown bookplate: "Fox Pointe Collection, library of Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl." Modern binding of quarter morocco over calendered cloth boards; a deckle edge evident at tail of leaf A2.
Hicks classification: LM T2155 1641.
Notes
Attributed by Wing to John Taylor.
Place of publication from Wing.
Signatures: A⁴.
Engraved title page, with vignette; headtail.
Caption on vignette reads: The liar rackt.
Pages [2] and [4] are blank.
Summary
A tract with a woodcut on the title-page, representing "The Liar rackt" by the figure of a man who is astride of a six-sided roller, the ends of which rest in holes through two upright posts, which are connected at the top by a framework armed with spikes and sustaining by ropes four weights, which rest on the hands and feet of the man. The man is in his shirt and breeches, his legs and arms are bare; he has a mitre-shaped cap on his head. The text contains references in the way of pretended stories as to the execution of Strafford, May 12, 1641, Laud, "Q. M". (Queen Henrietta Maria?), and her departure for Italy, Sir John Suckling, Sir W. Davenant and "Pearcy", the King's visit to Scotland, the Book of Canons, the bishops, Gregory (Brandon) the hangman, charing cross, women preachers, crafts-men preachers, lawyers, judges, and executioners. The stories thus referred to are supposed to have been told by an Englishman who travelled to the Swedish army. Disbelieving the man, the Swedes racked him in the manner represented in the woodcut.
Variant and related titles
Contradiction to those who in the titles of their bookes affirmed them to be true.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2022
References
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), T475.
British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661, E.169[8]
English short title catalogue, R8351.
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