Five nevv playes : viz. The English Moor, or The mock-marriage. : The love-sick court, or The ambitious politique. : Covent Garden weeded. : The nevv academy, or The nevv exchange : The queen and concubine / by Richard Brome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brome, Richard, -1652?

Contributor:

Brome, Alexander, 1620-1666, editor.

Crooke, Andrew, -1674, bookseller.

Brome, Henry, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Festschriften.

Penn Provenance:

Spiegelberg, Frederick, 1863-1937 (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Huth, Henry, 1815-1878 (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 169 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 96 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 110 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 130 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Bromes Playes

Five new playes

5 new playes

5 nevv playes

Fingerprint:

vese d;d, e.e, InMi (3) 1659 (A)

Place of Publication:

London, : Printed for A. Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard, and for H. Brome at the Gunn in Ivy-Lane, 1659.

Contents:

(from t.p.) The English Moor, or, The mock-marriage

The love-sick court, or, The ambitious politique

Covent Garden weeded [separate t.p.: The weeding of the Covent-Garden, or, The Middlesex-Justice of Peace]

The nevv academy, or, The nevv exchange

The queen and concubine.

Notes:

"The English moor" (Thomason E.1782[1]) and "The love-sick court" (E.1782[2]) have separate title pages, continuous pagination and register, and a final leaf of epilogue. "Covent Garden weeded" (E.1782[3]) and "The nevv academy" (E.1782[4]) have separate title pages, continuous register, separate pagination, and a final leaf of bookseller's advertisements. "Covent garden weeded" has title page which reads: "The weeding of the Covent-Garden". "The queen and concubine" (E.1782[5]) has its own title page, continuous pagination and register, and a final leaf of advertisements.

"The queen and concubine" is dated 1659. "The English Moor" has two separate title pages, one dated 1659, the other 1658. The remainig plays are dated 1658.

Signatures: A⁸ a⁴ ²A⁸ B-L⁸ ³[A]⁴ ²B-²G⁸ h⁴ ²H-²L⁸ M-O⁸ ⁴[A]² ³B-³I⁸ ³K².

With vertical half-title: Bromes Playes.

Edited by Alexander Brome.

Frontispiece: engraved portrait of the author.

Bookseller's advertisements: leaf (O8) at end of "The nevv academy" and final leaf (K2).

Errata on verso of K2.

Cf. Greg for individual plays, p. 806-810.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full green leather with gold-tooled border and corner ornaments; author, title and imprint stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled designs on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt.

Culture Class Collection copy has library label of Frederick Spiegelberg (1863-1937) on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-1878): "Ex Musaeo Huthii" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's description bound in before front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B4872

Thomason Coll., E.1782[1]

Thomason Coll., E.1782[2]

Thomason Coll., E.1782[3]

Thomason Coll., E.1782[4]

Thomason Coll., E.1782[5]

ESTC R20758

Contains:

Brome, Richard, -1652?. English Moor.

Brome, Richard, -1652?. Love-sick court.

Brome, Richard, -1652?. Weeding of Covent Garden.

Brome, Richard, -1652?. New academy.

Brome, Richard, -1652?. Queen and concubine.

OCLC:

36354611