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The woman-captain: : a comedy acted by His Royal Highnesses Servants

Archive Print Item: BC Lt SHA

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Type of record: Book

Title: The woman-captain: : a comedy acted by His Royal Highnesses Servants

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt SHA

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

Additional creator(s): Carr, Samuel (1675-1685) (Other); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)

Publisher: printed for Samuel Carr, at the King's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1680

Language: English

Size and medium: 8 unnumbered pages, 72 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282627

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001583649705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Signatures: A-K⁴.


Paper: watermarked: Strasburg lily GH/-.


With epilogue on leaf A4.


Leaf A2v in two states. Last line of dedication begins: State 1) "Wish of"; State 2) "your Countrey;".


BHL 01 (vol 2): eleventh item in bound volume of 17 items.


BHL 01 (vol 2) bound with: The history of Timon of Athens, 1678.


Indexed in: Wing S2887.


Indexed in: ESTC


Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway,


Indexed in: Pforzheimer,

Additional description

The 'Epilogue' is bound at the end in this copy

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 vol 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 vol 1, including possible price 6/6/-. MS. annotation page 60: Mrs Gripe is crossed out and replaced with Sir Hump [in margin].

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