Shelfmark
Go.4.09(02)
Author
Title
Pierce Penniless's supplication to the Devil. By Thomas Nash. From the first edition of 1592, compared with later impressions. With an introduction and notes, by J. Payne Collier, ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Reprinted for the Shakespeare Society., 1842..
Physical description
xxxii, 108 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 12)
Note
With reproduction of original t.-p.: Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the deuill. Describing the ouer-spreading of Vice, and the suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with variable delights: and pathetically intermixt with conceipted reproofes. Written by Thomas Nash, Gentleman. London, Imprinted by Richard Ihones ... 1592.
Note
Title page verso and last page of each play: "London: F. Shoberl, Jun., 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert".
With note
Issued with Barnabe Rich's novels and Fools and Jesters, shelfmarks: Go.4.09(01)-(03).
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
Theater Moral and ethical aspects.
Subject
Poetry Early works to 1800.
Subject
England Social life and customs.
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--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51038