Five new playes, (viz.) The madd couple well matcht. Novella. Court begger. City witt. Damoiselle
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Type of record: Book
Title: Five new playes, (viz.) The madd couple well matcht. Novella. Court begger. City witt. Damoiselle
Classmark: BC Lt d/BRO
Creator(s): Brome, Richard (1652)
Additional creator(s): Brome, Alexander (1620-1666) (Other); Cross, Thomas (fl. 1632-1682) (Other)
Related people: Brome, Alexander; Cross, Thomas
Publisher: printed for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1653
Language: English
Size and medium: [480] p., [1] leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/267700
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017543169705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Editor's dedication signed: A. Brome.
The words "madd couple.. Damoiselle." are bracketed together on title page.
The portrait is signed: T. Cross sculpsit.
Printed by Thomas Roycroft, according to Pforzheimer Catalogue. "The copy was divided between two compositors. One set-up through sheet S; the other, the remainder" -- Pforzheimer Catalogue.
Signatures: [pi]1 A8 (-A6-8) B-S8; A-F8 G4; A4 B-F8 G1-3 (=A6-8).
With [16] p. of advertisements at end.
"The novella" and "The court begger" each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. "The city wit" (Wing B4866) and "The damoiselle" (Wing B4868) each have separate register and dated title page with "printed by T.R." in imprint. There is no indication that the latter two plays were ever issued separately, though they are sometimes found so (Greg).
"The Novella" identified on UMI microfilm (Early English Books 1641-17700) reel 1773 as Wing B4880.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4870; Woodward and McManaway 153.
Additional description
Wanting frontispiece portrait.
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