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The honest lavvyer : acted by the Queenes Maiesties servants / written by S.S.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR2411 .H67 1616
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
S. S., active 1616.
Contributor:
Sheppard, S. (Samuel)
Purslowe, George, -1632, printer.
STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Penn Provenance:
Lefferts, Marshall Clifford (bookplate)
Physical Description:
78 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (4to)
Other Title:
Honest lawyer
Place of Publication:
London : Printed by George Purslowe for Richard Woodroffe, and are to be sold at his shop neere the great north-dore of Paules, at the signe of the guilded key, 1616.
Notes:
Samuel Sheppard is identified as the possible author in Chambers.
A later variant of the edition with imprint reading: ... for Richard Woodruffe, and are to be sold at the great north-dore ... Cf. ESTC.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-K⁴ (K4 blank).
Without pagination.
Woodcuts: title vignette, head- and tail-pieces.
Identified as STC 21519a on UMI microfilm reel 1735.
Local Notes:
Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf K4 (blank) wanting; leaves closely cropped at top and bottom margins with occasional damage to running title.
Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on free endpapers.
Cited in:
STC (2nd ed.) 21519
ESTC S116335
Chambers, E.K. Elizabethan stage, III, p. 491
OCLC:
57579588

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