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Playes / written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.

Accession number
PML 6274
Creator
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Published
London : Printed by A. Warren for John Martyn, James Allestry and Tho. Dicas, at the Bellin Saint Pauls Church Yard, 1662.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Title & prels. 12ff; Intro. & Text A-8H on 2s, 8Is in 4 (an extra blank f in last sign) pp. to 679.
Includes verses by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.
"Some copies occur with a portrait of the Duchess by van Schuppen [engraved from] Diepenbeke but it belongs rather with the volume of 1668 [Plays, never before printed, (Wing N867)], though not always found there"--Pforzheimer Catalogue.
Description
[24], 92, 97-679, [5] p. ; 31 cm (fol)
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, by Francis Bedford.
Classification
Department