Go.4.09(02)
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, ... .
London: : Reprinted for the Shakespeare Society., 1842..
xxxii, 108 p. ; 22 cm.
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 12)
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.
Title page verso and last page of each play: "London: F. Shoberl, Jun., 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert".
Issued with Barnabe Rich's novels and Fools and Jesters, shelfmarks: Go.4.09(01)-(03).
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library with label of Macmillan Fund and date "May 1899" on front pastedown.
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.
Theater Moral and ethical aspects.
Poetry Early works to 1800.
England Social life and customs.
Collier, John Payne, 1789 - 1883 editor.
Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 printer.
Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) publisher.
England London.
eng
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