Comedies, tragi-comedies, with other poems
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Type of record: Book
Title: Comedies, tragi-comedies, with other poems
Classmark: BC Lt d CAR
Creator(s): Cartwright, William (1611-1643)
Additional creator(s): Lawes, Henry (1596-1662) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for Humphrey Moseley
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1651
Language: English
Size and medium: 122 unnumbered pages, 148 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 320, that is, 326 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268072
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017603079705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Wing C 709; Danton, Library Quarterly, July, 1942, pp. 438-456.
First collected ed. For full description cf. G. B. Evans' Comedies... by ... Cartwright; a bibliographical study. This copy has state A of the special t.-p. to the poems.
Collation: frontispiece, [-]8, b8, *18, [paragraph mark]4, 2*8 (-2*7), 4*1-4*3, 3*8, 4*4-4*6, a-k8, A-T8, U3, U8, X2.
Each play has a separate title page, as does "Poems".
Imprint of title page to "The royall slave" reads: printed for T.R. & Humphrey Moseley.
Sig. * consists of 18 leaves. There is a stub between *7 and *8 (conjugate with *11), and another between *10 and *11 (conjugate with *8).
The cancelled leaf **7 carrying poems by Henry Davison and Richard Watkins, is represented by a stub.
Contents: The lady-errant, a tragi-comedy -- The royall-slave, a tragi-comedy. 3d. ed -- The ordinary, a comedy -- The siedge: or, Love's convert, a tragi-comedy -- Poems.
Additional description
Sig. b2 has been folded down to size (suggesting the volume has been much cut down in binding). The cancelled leaves U1-3 (p. 301-6) are retained in this copy, bound between sig. T and another sig. U (8 leaves, paged 301-316). Blank spaces on the first U1 recto and verso and U3 recto, indicate omissions before the text was cancelled in its entirety. Wanting X3-4, blank, at end? With Sheppard woodcut stamp (ram) and press(?) number on free front endpaper
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