The true tragedy of Herod and Antipater
Subtitle: with the death of faire Marriam, according to Iosephus the learned and famous Iew : as it hathe beene diuers times publiquely acted (with great applause) at the Red Bull by the Company of His Maiesties Revels
By: written by Gervase Markham, and William Sampson Gentlemen
Contributors: Sampson, William, 1590?-1636, author; Eld, George, -1624, printer; Rhodes, Matthew, active 1622-1642, bookseller; Batten, David, binder; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm)
Publisher: Printed by G. Eld for Mathew Rhodes and are to bee sold at his shop at the upper end of Old Bayly neere Newgate
Published: 1622
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Drama
Other titles: Herod and Antipater.; Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction); Early English playbooks, 1594-1799 (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Herod and Antipater
Notes: The names of Markham and Sampson are bracketed together on the title page.

Includes untitled songs without music.

With an author's epistle dedicatory signed "William Sampson." A variant (STC 17401) has instead an epistle signed "Math: Rhodes".

STC (2nd ed.) 17402

ESTC S114043

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171011 Chris Letizia

will not digitize 20171011 Chris Letizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in brown calfskin and marbled papers. Auctioneer's description from the Halliwell sale of May 21, 1857 laid on to the front pastedown. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Binder's ticket of David Batten on rear pastedown. Early inscription on L3 verso. L4 mended.