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Psyche : a tragedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre

Archive Print Item: BC Lt SHA

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Type of record: Book

Title: Psyche : a tragedy, acted at the Duke's Theatre

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt SHA

Creator(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)

Additional creator(s): T. N (Other); Herringman, Henry (1704) (Other); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)

Publisher: printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1675

Language: English

Size and medium: 12 unnumbered pages, 72 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282618

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001582999705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Dedication to James Duke of Monmouth.


BHL 01 (vol 1): sixth item in bound volume of 8 items.


BHL 01 (vol 1) bound with The sullen lovers. / Thomas Shadwell. London: Henry Herringman, 1668.


Indexed in: Wing S 2866; Woodward & McManaway 1086, i.e. first listed issue, with "Lower" in imprint and "Countrey" in heading on p.1.


Indexed in: ESTC


Indexed in: Pforzheimer,

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): Eighteenth/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 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, including possible price 6/6/-.

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