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The Queen's Majesty's entertainment at Woodstock, 1575 : from the unique fragment of the edition of 1585, including the Tale of Hemetes the hermit, and a comedy in verse / probably by George Gascoigne ; with an introduction by A.W. Pollard.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 531
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gascoigne, George, -1577, author.
- Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Drama.
- Elizabeth.
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Poetry.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--Sources.
- English drama.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--Sources.
- English poetry.
- Woodstock (England)--History--16th century--Sources.
- Woodstock (England).
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- English poetry--Early modern.
- England--Woodstock.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- History.
- Poetry.
- Sources.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (TYpe evidence) -- Fell.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Smedley, W. T. (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 32 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Tale of Hemetes
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : H. Daniel and H. Hart, 1910.
- Notes:
- "Cannot have been written as a whole by George Gascoigne, to whom it has usually been attributed"--Page vii.
- The text of the comedy was printed by Daniel in 1903, the rest of the book was printed in Fell type by the Clarendon Press in 1910. Cf. Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, p. 246.
- "One hundred and fifteen copies have been printed"--Verso of half title.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number XXXVIII [38].
- OCLC:
- 43434495
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