The gamester : as it was presented by her Maiesties Servants at the private house in Drury-Lane / written by Iames Shirly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shirley, James, 1596-1666.

Contributor:

Norton, John, -approximately 1640, printer.

Crooke, Andrew, -1674, bookseller.

Cooke, William, active 1632-1642, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry H. Bonnell Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

76 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

ngst d.s, e?r. CaWi (C) 1637 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Iohn Norton for Andrew Crooke and William Cooke, 1637.

Notes:

Signatures: A-I⁴ K².

Without pagination.

Woodcuts: title vignette, initial and head-piece.

K2v begins "As when she ...". Early variant: K2v omits this line and begins "Wi. I am ...".

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 938:09 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is variant where K2v begins "As when she ..."

Penn Libraries copy has a few ms. corrections to text in ink; illegible ms. inscription in ink on last printed leaf.

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown morocco with gold-tooled panel; author, title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins.

Culture Class Collection copy has the autograph of Henry H. Bonnell on verso of back free endpaper.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 22443

ESTC S105182

OCLC:

7210958