One of my colleagues picked up a very small volume at an old book fair in
Cincinnati (and for about $1.00) the following:

The title page reads as follows: Conversation As It Was By the Social
Fireside in The Time Of The Tudors from Ye Diary of Ye Cupbearer to her
Maisty
Queen Elizabeth. Imprinted by Ye Puritan Press At Ye Sign of Ye Jolly Virgin
1601.

It was published by The Byway Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1901-and 120 copies
were printed. And in 1916 a facsimile edition was published in Chicago.

There is no mention of Mark Twain anywhere in the volume, but it is
obviously Mark Twain's famous burlesque of Tudor conversation. It is printed
using a modernized Caxton black letter type and is on French handmade paper.

Does anyone know the history of this publication, or anything at all about
it?

Best,
Barbara Ladd