Shelfmark
Go.4.13(02)
Title
Tarlton's jests, and News out of purgatory: with notes, and some account of the life of Tarlton by James Orchard Halliwell ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1844..
Physical description
xlvii, 135, [1] p. : ill. (port.) ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 20)
Note
More or less fictitious anecdotes, many of them far older than Tarlton, who probably was in no way responsible for either work. cf. Dict. nat. biog., and introduction.
Note
Title page verso and last page: "London: F. Shoberl, Jun., 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert.".
With note
Issued with Extracts from the accounts of the revels at court, shelfmark: Go.4.13(01).
Formatted contents note
Contents: Introduction.--Tarlton's jests: Court-witty jests. Sound city jests, Pretty countrey jests.--Tarlton's Newes out of purgatory.--Appendix: Extracts from "The cobler of Canterburie" (an answer to "The news out of purgatorie") A very lamentable and wofull discours of the fierce fluds whiche lately flowed in Bedfordshire, in Lincolnshire, and in many other places, withe great losses of sheep and other cattel, the 5. of October, 1570. Extract from Chettle's "Kind-Harts dreame".
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 13"; "Revels at court. Tarlton's jests."; "Lond. 1842.-44.") 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 wit and humor.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Chettle, Henry, ? - d. 1607? Kind-Harts dreame.
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
B51047