Shelfmark
Go.4.15(01)
Author
Title
A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes. With other idle pastimes. By John Northbrooke, minister. From the earliest edition, about A.D. 1577. With an introduction and notes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Reprinted for the Shakespeare Society., 1843..
Physical description
xx, 188 p. ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 14)
Note
With reprodution of original t.-p.: Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra. A treatise wherein dicing, dauncing ... are reproved.
Note
Introduction signed: J. P. C. [i.e. John Payne Collier].
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 two other works, shelfmark: Go.4.15(02)-(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 15"; "Early treatises of the stage."; "Lond. 1843.") 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
Amusements Religious aspects.
Subject
Theater Moral and ethical aspects.
Subject
Dice.
Subject
Dance Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Collier, John Payne, 1789 - 1883 writer of introduction.
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
B51050