The woman-captain: : a comedy acted by His Royal Highnesses Servants
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Type of record: Book
Title: The woman-captain: : a comedy acted by His Royal Highnesses Servants
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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