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Five new playes, (viz.) The madd couple well matcht. Novella. Court begger. City witt. Damoiselle. By Richard Brome.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfilm 3942 Reel 182:E.1423[1].
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Brome, Richard, -1652?
- Series:
- Thomason Tracts ; 182:E.14231.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--17th century.
- English drama.
- Physical Description:
- 482 unnumbered pages : portrait (metal cut)
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed [by T[homas] R[oycroft] for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops, 1653.
- Contents:
- The madd couple well matcht
- The novella
- The court begger
- The city wit
- the damoiselle.
- Notes:
- Partly in verse.
- Editor's dedication signed: A. Brome.
- The words "madd couple .. Damoiselle." are bracketed together on title page.
- The portrait is signed: T. Cross sculpsit.
- Printer's name from the Pforzheimer Catalogue. "The copy was divided between two compositors. One set-up through sheet S; the other, the remainder"--Pforzheimer Catalogue.
- Signatures: pi1 A (-A6-8) B-S; A-F G⁴; A⁴ B-F G1-3 (=A6-8).
- "The novella" and "The court begger" each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. "The city wit" (Wing B4866) and "The damoiselle" (Wing B4868) each have separate register and dated title page with "printed by T.R." in imprint. There is no indication that the latter two plays were ever issued separately, though they are sometimes found so (Greg).
- Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 20".
- "The Novella" identified on UMI microfilm (Early English Books 1641-17700) reel 1773 as wing B4880.
- With 16 final advertisement pages.
- Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Harvard University Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Thomason Tracts ; 182:E.1423[1]). s1977 miun a
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4870.
- Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4866.
- Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4868.
- Pforzheimer 107.
- Thomason E.1423[1].
- Greg, III, p. 1021-22.
- Contains:
- The madd couple well matcht.
- The novella.
- The court begger.
- The city wit.
- The damoiselle.
- OCLC:
- 61375239
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