Shelfmark
Go.4.17(03)
Author
Uniform title
[John-a-Kent and John-a-Cumber]
Title
John a Kent and John a Cumber ; a comedy, by Anthony Munday. Printed from the original manuscript, the property of E. M. L. Mostyn ... with other tracts by the same author. The introduction and notes by J. Payne Collier, esq..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the Shakespeare Society., 1851..
Physical description
lxxii, 138 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. (facsim.) ; 22 cm.
Series statement
(Publications / Shakespeare Society ; no. 47)
Note
With reproductions of original title-pages.
Note
Title page verso and last page: "F. Shoberl, Jun., printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Rupert Street, Haymarket.".
With note
Issued with two other works, shelfmarks: Go.4.17(01)-(02).
Formatted contents note
Contents: Introduction.--The book of John a Kent and John a Cumber.--A View of sundry Examples.--Report of the execution of traitors. 1582.--An advertisement and defence against Campion. 1581.
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 17"; "Inigo Jones. Ben Jonson's conversations. John A Cumber etc."; "Lond. 1848.-51."). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Campion, Edmund, 1540 - 1581 Saint,
Subject
Catholics England.
Added entry--name
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
B51060