Theatrum triumphans, or, A discourse of plays : shewing the lawfulness and excellent use of drammatique poesy, and vindicateing the stage from all those groundless calumnies and misrepresentations, wherewith it is aspersed
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Type of record: Book
Title: Theatrum triumphans, or, A discourse of plays : shewing the lawfulness and excellent use of drammatique poesy, and vindicateing the stage from all those groundless calumnies and misrepresentations, wherewith it is aspersed
Other titles: Theatrum redivivum; Theatre vindicated; A discourse of plays
Classmark: BC Lt d/BAK
Creator(s): Baker, Sir Richard (1568-1645)
Publisher: Printed by S.G. and B.G. for Francis Eglesfield
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1670
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], 141 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/267818
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017568829705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Reissue of: Theatrum redivivum, or, The theatre vindicated. London : Printed by T.R. for F. Eglesfield, 1662, written in reply to William Prynne's "Histrio-mastix".
Running title: The theatre vindicated.
Wing B514.
Additional description
Wanting last leaf, presumably blank following blank verso of last printed leaf. Upper fore-corner of latter repaired, touching page numeral. MS comments on last front flyleaf, initialled WEG [?] and dated N.24.62 [i.e. 24 Nov. 1862], are probably by Gladstone. The volume sold with other Hawarden books at Sotheby's (July 21-2, 1975, lot 158) bears the stamp of St Deiniol's library, Hawarden, on recto of first free endpaper, verso of title leaf, p. 7 and last page. Shelf-label pasted on spine. Pencil notes (p. 141) may be in the same hand
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