A true widow : a comedy acted by the Duke's servants
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A true widow : a comedy acted by the Duke's servants
Classmark: BC Lt SHA
Creator(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)
Additional creator(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) (Other); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1679
Language: English
Size and medium: 8 unnumbered pages, 78 pages, 2 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282928
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001627219705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition.
The prologue is by Dryden. After his quarrel with Shadwell he gave this prologue to Mrs. Aphra Behn for her play The Widow Ranter.
Epilogue by the author.
With a final epilogue leaf. There are two states of the epilogue. State 1: the third line of the heading is in the same size type as the first, and the brackets which mark the 9-11th and 26-28th lines are set at the end of the letterpress. State 2: line 3 of the heading is in larger type and the brackets are moved far to the right--cf. Pforzheimer catalogue.
Dedication to Sir Charles Sedley.
BHL 01 (vol 2): tenth item in bound volume of 17 items.
Bound with: The history of Timon of Athens, 1678.
Indexed in: Wing S2881; Macdonald, H. John Dryden, 113a.
Indexed in: ESTC
Indexed in: Pforzheimer,
Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway,
Additional description
With the signature: 'Elizabeth Chichester' on title-page
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/-. MS. annotation on page [8]: Add to the Dram Persona Theodosia} a young lady belov'd by Carlos.
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