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The tragedy of Messallina the Roman emperesse : As it hath beene acted with generall applause divers times, by the Company of his Majesties Revells. Written by Nathanael Richards.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 1429:4.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Nathanael, approximately 1600-1652.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1429:4.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Messalina, Valeria, -48--Drama--Early works to 1800.
- Messalina, Valeria.
- Messalina, Valeria, -48.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 96 unnumbered pages : portrait (metal cut)
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Tho. Cotes for Daniel Frere, at the signe of the Red Bull in Little Brittaine, 1640.
- Notes:
- With an additional title page, engraved.
- Signatures: A-F.
- The frontispiece portrait is signed "T R sculp:", i.e. Thomas Rawlins. In this publication the subject is looking somewhat to his right, and there is no mole under his right eye. There are two states: (1) forehead is smooth, (2) forehead is furrowed. A third state, in which the subject is looking straight ahead and has a mole under his right eye, is found in Richards's "Poems", 1641.
- Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1976. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1429:4). s1976 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 21011.
- Greg, II, 578.
- OCLC:
- 61371776
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