Accession number
PML 5377
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Published
London : Printed for Abel Swall at the Unicorn at the West-end of S. Pauls. and Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head in Chancery lane near Fleet-street, 1679.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Acting version, freely adapted, of Shakespeare's play.
First edition - what issue? See Wrenncet.
Caption title: Truth found to late, a tragedy.
Signatures: A⁴, a-b⁴ , B-K⁴ (K4, "Books lately printed").
"Copies are frequently found with a leaf, containing lines 'To Mr. Dryden on his Play, Called, Truth Found Too Late' signed 'R. Duke.', inserted usually before the advertisement but sometimes among the preliminaries. Probably some copies were issued before that leaf was prepared"--Pforzheimer catalogue.
First edition - what issue? See Wrenncet.
Caption title: Truth found to late, a tragedy.
Signatures: A⁴, a-b⁴ , B-K⁴ (K4, "Books lately printed").
"Copies are frequently found with a leaf, containing lines 'To Mr. Dryden on his Play, Called, Truth Found Too Late' signed 'R. Duke.', inserted usually before the advertisement but sometimes among the preliminaries. Probably some copies were issued before that leaf was prepared"--Pforzheimer catalogue.
Description
[24], 69, [5] p. ; 22 cm (4to)
Provenance
Pickering & Chatto, bookseller's ticket (front pastedown) and price codes (or Griswold's?): £s.no.s/$o.so (rear endleaf); Almon Whiting Griswold (1859-1923), his sale, Leavitt & Co., 1 June 1880, lot 417; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased at the Griswold sale "Dec. 1880" and price code: $d- (rear endleaf); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled red morocco.
Classification
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