The sparagus garden
Subtitle: a comedie acted in the yeare 1635 by the then Company of Revels, at Salisbury Court
By: the author Richard Brome
Contributors: Okes, John, active 1627-1644, printer; Constable, Francis, -1647, printer; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-Street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster-Hall
Published: 1640
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Other titles: Sparagvs garden; Early English Playbooks, 1594-1799 (Boston Public Library); Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Leaf A4 recto contains prologue; variant contains prologue and epilogue.

Signatures: A-Ĺþ.

Headpieces; initial.

Boston Public Library. Barton Collection catalogue, Misc. p. 67

English short title catalogue, S106714

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 3820

Cataloged 20171026 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171114 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern brown goatskin and papier tourniquet. Title stamped in gilt on the spine. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Ca. 19th-century manuscript table of contents on verso of flyleaf facing title page. BPL embossed stamp on title page. Ink stamp of John Ker, third Duke of Roxburghe, on title page verso.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy is the first of five plays by Richard Brome bound together into a single volume titled "Brome playes." This volume contains 1: The sparagus garden (ESTC S106714) -- 2. The antipodes (ESTC S106712) -- 3. The joviall crew, or, The merry beggars (ESTC R6854) -- 4. The queenes exchange (ESTC R27813) -- 5. The northern lasse (ESTC R12411).