Note: Library records of the 1976 Hamilton edition report this long title: Falstaff : being the 'Acta domini Johannis Fastolfe', or 'Life and valiant deeds of Sir John Faustoff', or 'The hundred days war', as told by Sir John Fastolf, K.G., to his secretaries William Worcester, Stephen Scrope, Fr. Brackley, Christopher Hanson, Luke Nanton, John Bussard, and Peter Basset (so fashioned by the British Library, BL 008045525) Probably the title page displays all that, continuing "now first transcribed, arranged and edited in modern spelling by Robert Nye".

Synopsis: "Poet/novelist Nye mines the motherlode of Henry IV [two Shakespeare plays] and finds if not pure gold at least enough of the baser mettle to put together a raunchy Jack Falstaff, while adding a glint of nobility. Here at 81 the imperfect knight dictates his memoirs to a parade of young scribes whose contributions--from prudery to undue flatulence--he records. ... A grounding in the plays is helpful but not required for this necessarily thinner, but mightily expanded, shadow of Plump Jack." --Kirkus Reviews 1976 (undated online)