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Five new playes, viz. The English moor, or the mock-marriage. The love-sick court, or the ambitious politique. Covent Garden weeded. The new academy, or the new exchange. The queen and concubine

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Type of record: Book

Title: Five new playes, viz. The English moor, or the mock-marriage. The love-sick court, or the ambitious politique. Covent Garden weeded. The new academy, or the new exchange. The queen and concubine

Other titles: Bromes playes

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt d/BRO

Creator(s): Brome, Richard (1652)

Publisher: printed for A. Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard, and for H. Brome at the Gunn in Ivy-Lane

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1659

Language: English

Size and medium: [28], 169, [11], 96, [8], 110, [6], 130, [2] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/267696

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017543049705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

With a vertical half-title: Bromes playes.


'The English moor' (E.1782[1]) has separate title page with imprint "...printed by J.T. for A.C. and Henry Broom,... 1658.", and separate register.


'The love-sick court.' (E.1782[2]) has a separate title page with imprint '...printed by J.T. for A.C. and are to be sold by Henry Broom,... 1658.' on leaf [F6]r; pagination and register continuous from 'The English moor'. Leaf L8 bears 'Epilogue' on recto.


'The weeding of the Covent-Garden.' (E.1782[3]) has separate title page with imprint '... printed for Andrew Crook,... and Henry Broom ... 1658.', and separate pagination and register. Quire h inserted between quires G and H; signature h1 inclosed in parentheses, leaf [h2] is blank.


'The new academy' (E.1782[4]) has a separate title page with imprint '... printed for Andrew Crook,... and Henry Broom ... 1658.' on leaf [h3]r, and separate pagination; register continuous from 'The weeding of the Covent-Garden'.


'The queen and concubine.' (E.1782[5]) has a separate dated title page, separate pagination and register. With a final advertisement and errata leaf.


Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4872; Woodward and McManaway 156.

Additional description

Lacks half-title. In this copy the Epilogue to Covent Garden weeded , and the title page and actors' names of The new academy have been wrongly bound with the preparatory matter of the former play.

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