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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.

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England London.

Language code

eng

Identifier

B51038
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