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Author Greene, Robert, 1558-1592.
Title The defence of conny catching. Or A confutation of those two iniurious pamphlets published by R.G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and mysticall sciences. By Cuthbert Cunny-catcher, licentiate in Whittington Colledge.
Alternative Title Confutation of those two injurious pamphlets published by R.G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and mysticall sciences.
Publication Info Printed at London : By A. I[effes] for Thomas Gubbins and are to be sold by Iohn Busbie, 1592.



Descript [36] p.
Note "Although this is nominally a riposte to [Robert] Greene's "A notable discovery of coosenage" and "The second part of conny-catching" (S65), it reads more like an advertisement for those two pieces, and is almost certainly from the same pen"--Halkett & Laing (3d ed.).
With a title-page woodcut.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-D⁴ E² .
Quire A is partly reimposed from STC 5654.5.
Identified as STC 5655 on reel 1443.
Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (reel 526) and the British Library (reel 1443).
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Author Greene, Robert, 1558-1592.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Greene, Robert, 1558-1592. Notable discovery of coosenage.
Greene, Robert, 1558-1592. Second part of conny-catching.
Thieves -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Confutation of those two injurious pamphlets published by R.G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and mysticall sciences.
Descript [36] p.
Note "Although this is nominally a riposte to [Robert] Greene's "A notable discovery of coosenage" and "The second part of conny-catching" (S65), it reads more like an advertisement for those two pieces, and is almost certainly from the same pen"--Halkett & Laing (3d ed.).
With a title-page woodcut.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-D⁴ E² .
Quire A is partly reimposed from STC 5654.5.
Identified as STC 5655 on reel 1443.
Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (reel 526) and the British Library (reel 1443).
Author Greene, Robert, 1558-1592.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Greene, Robert, 1558-1592. Notable discovery of coosenage.
Greene, Robert, 1558-1592. Second part of conny-catching.
Thieves -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Confutation of those two injurious pamphlets published by R.G. against the practitioners of many nimble-witted and mysticall sciences.

Subject Greene, Robert, 1558-1592. Notable discovery of coosenage.
Greene, Robert, 1558-1592. Second part of conny-catching.
Thieves -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [36] p.
Note "Although this is nominally a riposte to [Robert] Greene's "A notable discovery of coosenage" and "The second part of conny-catching" (S65), it reads more like an advertisement for those two pieces, and is almost certainly from the same pen"--Halkett & Laing (3d ed.).
With a title-page woodcut.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-D⁴ E² .
Quire A is partly reimposed from STC 5654.5.
Identified as STC 5655 on reel 1443.
Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (reel 526) and the British Library (reel 1443).

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