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[TOMKIS, THOMAS.] Lingua: or, The Combat of the Tongue, and the five senses for Superiority. A pleasant comoedie. [40] leaves. 4to, later 19th-century 1/2 brown levant, spine ends worn, covers detached; contents unobtrusively washed, margins trimmed entering some direction lines, text and headlines unaffected, short repaired clean tear in blank margin of title. Bookplates of W. A. Brewer, Jr., and Marshall Clifford Lefferts. London: N. Okes, for Simon Waterson, circa 1615
Second edition of a work originally published in 1607, "a farcical presentation of a struggle between personifications of the tongue and the five senses, all which are identified by their Latin names" (ODNB). Greg 239(b); STC 24105.
