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Lamentable tragedy of Locrine the eldest sonne of King Brutus discoursing the warres of the Britaines and Hunnes : with their discomfiture, the Britaines victorie with their accidents, and the death of Allanact / no lesse pleasant then profitable, newly set foorth, overseene and corrected by U.S.

Accession number
PML 5125
Published
London : Printed by Thomas Creede, 1595.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Signatures: A-K⁴.
First edition - very rare.
First printed under the initials W.S., hence ascribed to Shakespeare and included in the third folio 1664; attributed also to Wentworth Smith or Charles Tilney.
For discussion of authorship see Cambridge history of English literature, v. 5, p. 268.
The Huntington duplicate, sold Apr. 1918 brought $7,600.
Description
[80] p. ; 4to
Provenance
Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco by Duprez Lahey.
Classification
Department