The first part of the true & honorable history, of the life of Sir Iohn Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham. : As it hath bene lately acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Notingham Lord High Admirall of England, his seruants. / Written by William Shakespeare.

Accession number

PML 5103

Published

London : Printed [by William Jaggard] for T[homas]. P[avier]., 1600 [i.e. 1619]

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

2d edition, published in 1619, one of the falsely dated quartos. Cf. Greg.
Attributed to Anthony Munday, Michael Drayton, Robert Wilson, and Richard Hathway. Misattributed in a later edition to William Shakespeare. Cf. DNB, XXV, p. 157.
Page [80] blank.
Printer's and publisher's names from STC.
Signatures: A-K⁴.

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[80] pages ; 20 cm

Provenance

John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), binding and shelf mark: I (leaf A1r); his sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826; Edward G. Asay; Theodore Irwin, purchased from Asay, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Binding

19th-century English gilt-tooled brown morocco, for Inglis.

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The first part of the true & honorable history, of the life of Sir Iohn Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham. : As it hath bene lately acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Notingham Lord High Admirall of England, his seruants. / Written by William Shakespeare.