The opportvnitie : a comedy, as it was presented by Her Majesties servants, at the private house in Drury Lane / written by Iames Shirley.

Accession number: 
PML 6291
Author: 
Shirley, James, 1596-1666.
Published: 
London : Printed by Thomas Cotes for Andrew Crooke, and Will. Cooke, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Greene Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, 1640.
Description: 
38 leaves.
Credit: 
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes: 

Leaf 1[superscript]a title, 1[superscript]b blank, 2[superscript]a dedication to Richard Owen, 2[superscript]b actors' names; 3[superscript]a-38[superscript]a text, 38[superscript]b blank.
Other copies: British Museum; Dyce Library of the V. & A. Museum; Bodleian; Huntington; Clawson Library; and Library of Congress.
First edition.
Based on "El castigo del penséque" of Téllez.
Signatures: A², B⁴-K⁴.

Binding: 
3/4 brown morocco.
Provenance: 
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
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