Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Brome, Richard, d. 1652?
Source Title:
[Plays] 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.
Source Created or Published:
1659
Physical Description:
title page opening of third play, "The Weeding of the Covent-Garden"
Source Call Number:
B4872 copy 2
Digital Image File Name:
3465
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
142478
Hamnet Holdings ID:
144127
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Brome, Richard, d. 1652?
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Plays
Title (Hamnet):
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.
Title (Hamnet):
English moor, or the mock-marriage.
Title (Hamnet):
Love-sick court, or the ambitious politique.
Title (Hamnet):
Covent garden weeded.
Title (Hamnet):
New academy, or the new exchange.
Title (Hamnet):
Queen and concubine.
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Bromes playes
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Weeding of the Covent-Garden
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Five new playes
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
New academy
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
printed for A. Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard, and for H. Brome at the Gunn in Ivy-Lane,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
1659.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[28], 169, [11], 96, [8], 110, [6], 130, [2] p. ; 8⁰.
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
Imperfect: wanting half-title; "English Moor" (1658) t.p.; and leaf O8 (adv.). Titlepages to "English Moor" discussed in Greg, no. 806 which calls the 1659 t.p. a cancel. Provenance: signatures of J. P. Andrews and Cornelius Paine; bookplates of Paine and Thomas Jefferson McKee; J. Mitford copy as bound as volume 2 to go with Brome's "Five new playes", 1653 (smk: B4870 Copy 2)
Notes (Hamnet):
With vertical half-title: Bromes playes.
Notes (Hamnet):
'The English moor' has 2 separate title pages. Leaf a4r has imprint "printed in the year, 1659"; leaf A1r has imprint "... printed by J.T. for A.C. and Henry Broom, ... 1658.". Register is separate. Also issued separately? Wing B4869A, B4869aA.
Notes (Hamnet):
'The love-sick court.' has a separate title page with imprint '...printed by J.T. for A.C. and Henry Broom, ... 1658.'on leaf [F6]r; pagination and register continuous from 'The English moor'. Leaf L8 bears 'Epilogue' on recto.
Notes (Hamnet):
'The weeding of the Covent-Garden.' has separate title page with imprint '... printed for Andrew Crook, ... and Henry Broom ... 1658.', and separate pagination and register. Leaf [h2] is blank. Quire h inserted between quires G and H. Signature h1 inclosed in parentheses. Also issued separately? Wing B4884.
Notes (Hamnet):
'The new academy' has a separate title page with imprint '... printed for Andrew Crook, ... and Henry Broom ... 1658.' on leaf [h3]r, and separate pagination; register continuous from 'The weeding of the Covent-Garden'.
Notes (Hamnet):
'The queen and concubine.' has a separate dated title page, separate pagination and register. With a final advertisement leaf. Also issued separately? Wing B4881.
Notes (Hamnet):
Annotations on Thomason copies: (E.1782[1]; general titlepage): "Jan"; the '9' in the imprint has been crossed out and replaced with an "8"; (E. 1782[3]: "Jan: January"; (E. 1782[5]): "Jan"; the '9' in the imprint has been crossed out and replaced with an "8".
Citations (Hamnet):
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B4872
Citations (Hamnet):
Thomason, E.1782[1]
Citations (Hamnet):
Thomason, E.1782[2]
Citations (Hamnet):
Thomason, E.1782[3]
Citations (Hamnet):
Thomason, E.1782[4]
Citations (Hamnet):
Thomason, E.1782[5]
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) R209758
Associated Name (Hamnet):
McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Mitford, John, 1781-1859, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Bridgewater House Library, former owner.
Call Number (Hamnet):
B4872 Copy 2

[Plays] Five nevv playes, viz. The English moor, or the mock-marriage. The love-sick…