Shelfmark
Ci.2.4.02
Additional shelfmark
Saa3.8.15(04) (Copy 2)
Author
Title
The whole woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre: newlye compyled into one volume, that is to say: his flowers, hearbes, weedes, the fruites of warre, the comedie called Supposes, the tragedie of Iocasta, the Steele glasse, the complaint of Phylomene, the storie of Ferdinando Ieronimi, and the pleasure at Kenelworth Castle.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Imprinted by Abell Ieffes, 1587.
Physical description
[32], 158, [6], 76p, 77-107 leaves, 107-174, [2], 175-352, 193-296, [48]p ; 4to.
Note
Largely in verse.
Note
Not actually the complete works.
Note
Includes the Steele glasse, not included in earlier editions.
Note
Extensive mis-pagination or -foliation in parts.
Citation/references note
Greg, Collections, Gascoigne, 1587(+); STC 11638; ESTC S105705
Provenance
Copy 1: Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Provenance
Copy 2: Bookplate of Eton College. Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
Copy 1: 18th century blue, gold-tooled morocco. Border of fillets and foliage tool. ?By H. Walther.
Binding
Copy 2: 18th century mottled calf.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Previously ?Ci.3.1.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Incomplete: wants four leaves (see Greg).
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Extra-illustrated with portrait of author.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Previous shelfmarks: A3.4, Cl.7.1, S.178.Plays 54(04). Incomplete: "Supposes" only, wanting leaf C3. Variant uncertain, as collective title-page not present. Cropped, with loss to signatures, catchwords, running titles, and text on some leaves. Bound with three other 16th or 17th century English plays.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B10837