Shelfmark
Go.4.09(01)
Author
Title
Eight novels employed by English dramatic poets of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Originally published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and reprinted from a copy of that date in the Bodleian Library.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Reprinted for the Shakespeare Society., 1846..
Physical description
xvi, 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications. Shakespeare Society ; no. 33)
Note
Several of the tales are from Italian sources. The "Conclusion" contains a ninth story, Belthaser, similar to Machiavelli's Marriage of Belphegor.
Note
Title page verso: "F. Shoberl, Junior, Printer to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, London.", with royal coat of arms.
Note
Original title page transcribed at p. [1].
With note
Issued with Pierce Penniless and Fools and jesters, shelfmarks: Go.4.09(02)-(03).
Formatted contents note
Contents: Contents: Sappho, duke of Mantona.--Of Apolonius and Silla.--Of Nicander and Lucilla.--Of Fineo and Fiamma.--Of two brethren and their wives.--Of Gonsales and his vertuous wife Agatha.--Of Aramanthus, borne a leper.--Of Phylotus and Emilia.--Conclusion.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library with label of Macmillan Fund and date "May 1899" on front pastedown.
Binding
19th-century red morocco over millboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets and roll to form a border; gilt panel with gilt tools at the corners; gilt fillets on board-edges and gilt roll on turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, titling ("Shakespeare Society 9"; "Early prose and political tracts. I."; "Lond. 1846.") and modern shelf label ("SHA 822"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Subject
English fiction Early modern, 1500-1700.
Added entry--name
Collier, John Payne, 1789 - 1883 editor.
Added entry--name
Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
Added entry--name
Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
Added entry--title
Riche his Farewell to militarie profession.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51036