The virtuoso : A comedy, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The virtuoso : A comedy, as it is acted at the Duke's Theatre
Classmark: BC Lt SHA
Creator(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)
Additional creator(s): 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): 1676
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 88 pages, 2 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282929
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001627279705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
BHL 01 (vol 1): eighth item in a bound volume of 8 items.
BHL 01 (vol 1) bound with The sullen lovers. / Thomas Shadwell. London: Henry Herringman, 1668.
Cf. A catalogue of the library of... John Henry Wrenn. Austin, Tex., 1920. v. 4, p. 96.
Indexed in: Wing S2883[?]; Woodward & McManaway 1103 (signatures: A-M⁴).
Indexed in: ESTC
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 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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