Sixe court comedies : Often presented and acted before Queene Elizabeth, by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules. /
Lyly, John,1554?-1606.
London : Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount,
1632.
Signatures: A⁶ B-2D¹².
The first leaf is blank.
"Campaspe" (a reprint of STC 17048), "Sapho and Phao" (STC 17086), "Gallathea" (STC 17080), "Mydas" (STC 17083), and "Mother Bombie" (STC 17084) each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. Also includes "Endimion" (STC 17050).
Dedication signed "Ed. Blount". Variant 1: title has "actted" and "eacetiously-"; dedication signed "Ed. Blunt". These states represent stages of stop-press correction of sheet A; the fully corrected state, with "wittie" in the title, is STC 17089.
Leaves O7-10 and 2C9-10 are correctly imposed. Variant 2: leaves O3-10 and 2C3,4.9,10 in an earlier setting, wrongly imposed. This variant is independent of the title-page variants.
STC (2nd ed.)
Greg
Pforzheimer
ESTC