Two tragedies : viz. Cleopatra, Queene of Ægypt, and Agrippina, Empress of Rome
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Type of record: Book
Title: Two tragedies : viz. Cleopatra, Queene of Ægypt, and Agrippina, Empress of Rome
Other titles: The tragedie of Cleopatra, Queene of Ægypt; The tragedie of Julia Agrippina
Classmark: BC Lt d/MAY
Creator(s): May, Thomas (1595-1650)
Publisher: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1654
Language: English
Size and medium: [191] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270772
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017972689705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Each work has special t.p.
The two tragedies, originally issued separately in 1639, were reissued in 1654 with cancel titles, a single 8vo leaf, verso blank, dated 1654, being prefixed to a collection of the separate 1639 editions (see Greg).
Wing M1416; Greg, vol. 3, p. 1092 (cf. his 553 Aii, 554 Aii).
Additional description
Brand-Heber-Britwell-Dobell copy. A2 of Cleopatra ( To ... Sr Kenelme Digby , signed Tho. May) is present with the stub of A1, the cancelled title leaf. A11 and A12 of Julia Agrippina are also present, though evidently intended for cancellation. A1r of Julia Agrippina , normally blank, here retains the signature A and ornaments present in the issue of 1639 this feature of this copy, which appears to be unique, is specifically mentioned by Greg (vol. 2, p. 694). A2 of Cleopatra may have been supplied from another copy. Holograph catalogue description of Percy Dobell (c. 1929) loosely inserted. Signature M. Brown on title page of Cleopatra
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