Bury-Fair. : A comedy, as it is acted by His Majesty's Servants
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Type of record: Book
Title: Bury-Fair. : A comedy, as it is acted by His Majesty's Servants
Other titles: Bury fair
Classmark: BC Lt SHA
Creator(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)
Additional creator(s): Knapton, James (1738) (Other); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1689
Language: English
Size and medium: 8 unnumbered pages, 60 pages, 4 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282609
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001582539705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition.
Knapton's advertisements I4r.
Paper: watermarked: Strasburg lily/-. [Brotherton copy]
BHL 01 has 17 items/plays in two volumes. Volume 1 has 8 items and volume 2 has 9 items.
BHL 01 (vol 2): fourteenth item in bound volumes of total 17 items. $5 UkLeU
Bound with: The history of Timon of Athens, 1678. / Thomas Shadwell.
Indexed in: Wing S2836; Macdonald, H. Dryden, 260.
Indexed in: ESTC
Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 01: excerpt from booksellers catalogue pasted onto front pastedown of vol 1.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 01 (vol 1 & 2): Nineteenth-century blue morocco, gold tooled on cover and spines, red marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 01: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022. Excerpt from bookseller's catalogue on front pastedown of volume 1 explains that Mr Lacy of theatrical renown collected these original editions of Shadwell's plays over 30 years. MS. annotations by bookseller on front flyleaf of volume 1, including possible price 6/6/-.
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