BODENHAM, OR LING'S POLITEUPHUIA.
Sir,—The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for sale, issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:—
"Bodenham? (Ling?), Politeuphuia. Wits commonwealth, original wrapper, vellum. VERY RARE.
"80 fr. 8vo. London, for Nicholas Ling, 1597.
"This book, 'being a methodical collection of the most choice and select admonitions and sentences, compendiously drawn from infinite varietie,' is quoted by Lowndes under Bodenham, as first printed in 1598; the Epistle dedicatory however of the present copy is signed: 'N. Ling', and addressed 'to his very good friend Maister I.B.,' so that Ling appears to have been the author, and this an edition unknown to Lowndes or any other bibliographer."
This seems to settle one point, perhaps a not very important one, in our literary history; and as such may deserve a place among your "NOTES."
BOOKWORM.