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Record Nr.

UNISA996391478103316

Autore

Lyly John <1554?-1606.>

Titolo

Sixe court comedies [[electronic resource] ] : Often presented and acted before Queene Elizabeth, by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules. Witten [sic] by the onely rare poet of that time, the witie, comicall, facetiously-quicke and vnparalelld: Iohn Lilly, Master of Arts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount, 1632

Descrizione fisica

[636] p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signatures: A⁶ B-2D¹² .

The first leaf is blank.

"Campaspe" (a reprint of STC 17048), "Sapho and Phao" (STC 17086), "Gallathea" (STC 17080), "Mydas" (STC 17083), and "Mother Bombie" (STC 17084) each has separate dated title page; register is continuous. Also includes "Endimion" (STC 17050).

Dedication signed "Ed. Blount". Variant 1: title has "actted" and "eacetiously-"; dedication signed "Ed. Blunt". These states represent stages of stop-press correction of sheet A; the fully corrected state, with "wittie" in the title, is STC 17089.

Leaves O7-10 and 2C9-10 are correctly imposed. Variant 2: leaves O3-10 and 2C3,4.9,10 in an earlier setting, wrongly imposed. This variant is independent of the title-page variants.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113