The sullen lovers, or, The impertinents : a comedy (Vol 1)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The sullen lovers, or, The impertinents : a comedy (Vol 1)
Other titles: Sullen lovers; Impertinents
Classmark: Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 01
Creator(s): Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)
Additional creator(s): Molière (1622-1673) (Other); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed for Henry Herringman at the sign of the Anchor in the lower-walk of the New-Exchange
Publication city: [London] In the Savoy
Date(s): 1668
Language: English
Size and medium: 14 unnumbered pages, 97 pages, 1 unnumbered page
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730877
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001583259705181
Description
First edition.
Based on Molière's Les fâcheux, and also based in part on his Le misanthrope.
"Acted by His Highness the Duke of Yorkes servants."
BHL 01 (vol 1): first item in a bound volume of 8 items. Volume 2 has 9 items, 17 items in total.
BHL 01 (vol 1) bound with: ii) The Royal Shepherdess, 1669; iii) The Humorists, 1671; iv) The Miser, 1672; v) Epsom-Wells, 1676; vi) Psyche, 1675; vii) The Libertine, 1676; viii) The Virtuoso, 1676. Volume 2: ix) The History of Timon of Athens, 1678; x) A True Widow, 1679; xi) The Woman-Captain, 1680; xii) The Lancashire-Witches, 1682; xiii) The Squire of Alsatia, 1688; xiv) Bury-Fair, 1689; xv) The Amorous Bigotte, 1690; xvi) The Scowrers, 1691; xvii) The Volunteers, 1693. / Thomas Shadwell.
Indexed in: Wing S2878; Macdonald 160.
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) : 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. Possible MS inscription on title page: Lacy. 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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