[The monarchick tragedies]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [The monarchick tragedies]
Classmark: BC Lt/ALE
Publisher: V. Simmes for E. Blount (? - G. Elde for E. Blount)
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1604? or 1607?]
Language: English
Size and medium: [91] ff
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268090
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017605459705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Wanting all before sig. Aiii ("To His Sacred Maiestie") and wanting 2A1 (title-page to Darius, with 2 unrelated poems).
Greg (vol. III) pp. 1009-10: if 1607, may be either of the two issues distinguished by a part-title in part 2 only.
Sig. 2K4 is a blank leaf.
STC 343 (with Croesus and Darius only), 1604, or STC 344 (the reissue with 1607 cancel general title-leaf, in one of two issues, part one only).
Additional description
Bound with 3 other publications by Alexander as a nonce collection of his works. Volume contents: 1. Aurora, 1604. -- 2. The monarchick tragedies, part 2, 1607. -- 3. The monarchick tragedies, part 1, 1604? or 1607?. -- 4. A paraenesis to the Prince, 1604. The volume appears to consist of imperfect copies of the firt issue, 2 plays, part 1 and part 2, 1607, bound in reverse order and his Paraenesis to the Prince, 1604 in a 19th-century morocco binding with the armorial stamps of the Duke of Sutherland (? George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd duke, 1786-1861). Water-staining indicates that the collection was originally bound with the Paraenesis first and the Aurora second. A 19th-century inscription on the first free endpaper to the volume records its having been brought from the Duke of Sutherland, and rebound in London in 1849
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