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The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke his brother : with the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the Third, and his miserable end / written by the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Moore ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483.
- Edward.
- Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485.
- Richard.
- Great Britain--History--House of York, 1461-1485.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Richard III, 1483-1485.
- Penn Provenance:
- Halliday, Harrold (autograph, 21 Nov. 1891)
- Physical Description:
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on title bar: More's Lives of Edward V and Richard III
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Thomas Payne for the Company of Stationers, and are to be sold by Mich: Young, at his shop in Bedford-street in Covent-Garden, neere the new Exchange, 1641.
- System Details:
- Mode of accesss: World Wide Web.
- System requirements: graphics-capable WWW browser software.
- text file
- Notes:
- Title from ESTC.
- Dedication signed: W.S. [i.e. William Sheares].
- The editor, William Sheares, completed the narrative of Richard III largely from Hall's Chronicle (1548); concerning the authorship of this work, see DNB article on More.
- Second part has separate t.p.: The tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the third / written by the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Moore ... -- London : Printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons, 1641.
- Collation of print ed.: 12mo. A⁴ B-V¹² X⁸ (X8 blank). [8], 461 [i.e. 469] p., [2] leaves of plates : ports. ; 14 cm. (Page numbers 135-144 repeated in pagination, 423-424 omitted.)
- Woodcuts: initials; head-pieces; text and titles within woodcut borders.
- Digitized and made available in 2000 by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) Digital Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: title-leaf wanting; title and imprint supplied from ESTC; second leaf mutilated with significant loss of text; last leaf (blank) wanting; plates (ports. of Edward V and Richard III) wanting.
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd ed.) M2688
- ESTC (RLIN) R5586
- Contains:
- Tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the Third.
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