Accession number
PML 19445
Creator
Dekker, Thomas, approximately 1572-1632.
Published
London : Printed by T. C[reed] and are to be solde by Mathew Lawe, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, 1604.
Notes
The Bodleian possesses also a second issue wood 616(5) with running-title on C4[superscript]6 "The Meeting of Gallants."
First issue.
One of the earliest of Shakespeare illusion volumes.
Printer's device on t.p., head-pieces, tail-pieces, initials.
Two other copies recorded: British Museum (Chalmers-Daniel-Tite copy) and Bodleian Mal. 635 (Reed-Malone copy from which Halliwell-Phillipps made his reprint in 1841 for the Percy Society).
Signatures: A⁴-D⁴, the last a blank missing. Al[superscript]a Title, Al[superscript]b, blank, A2[superscript]a-A4[superscript]b Dialogue betweene warre, famine, etc. in verse, Bl[superscript]d-D3[superscript]a The meeting etc., D4 blank wanting.
First issue.
One of the earliest of Shakespeare illusion volumes.
Printer's device on t.p., head-pieces, tail-pieces, initials.
Two other copies recorded: British Museum (Chalmers-Daniel-Tite copy) and Bodleian Mal. 635 (Reed-Malone copy from which Halliwell-Phillipps made his reprint in 1841 for the Percy Society).
Signatures: A⁴-D⁴, the last a blank missing. Al[superscript]a Title, Al[superscript]b, blank, A2[superscript]a-A4[superscript]b Dialogue betweene warre, famine, etc. in verse, Bl[superscript]d-D3[superscript]a The meeting etc., D4 blank wanting.
Description
14 leaves
Binding
Blue morocco by Rivière & Son.
Classification
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Department