The bloody brother
Subtitle: a tragedy
By: by B.J.F.
Contributors: Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, attributed name; Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616, attributed name; Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640, attributed name; Field, Nathan, 1587-1620?, attributed name; Daborne, Robert, -1628, attributed name; Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?, attributed name; Cartwright, William, 1606?-1686, attributed name; Wilkins, George, active 1607, attributed name; Middleton, Thomas, -1627, attributed name; Bishop, Richard, active 1631-1653, printer; Crook, John, -1669, bookseller; Allott, Thomas, bookseller; Spiegelberg, Frederick, 1863-1937, former owner; Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895, former owner; Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935, former owner; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder
Publisher: Printed by R. Bishop, for Thomas Allott, and Iohn Crook, and are to be sold in Pauls Churchyard, at the signe of the Greyhound
Published: 1639
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Other titles: Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Signatures: Áþ(-A1.4) B-Ǵþ g1(=A4?) ℗øǴþ H-Íþ.

A2, F3,℗øG2  signed A3, E3, C2 respectively.

Title page vignette; headpiece; initial.

A1 is blank, but was probably intended to be removed when A4 was moved to g1.--ESTC

Authorship uncertain; variously ascribed to Fletcher and Jonson, Massinger, Beaumont, Field, Daborne, Rowley, Cartwright, Wilkins and Middleton. cf. Oliphant, E.H.C. The plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. New Haven, 1927, p. 457-463.

Published later with titles: The tragoedy of Rollo Duke of Normandy; and The bloody brother, or Rollo.

Cf. Wise, T.J. The Ashley Library. 1922-36. v. 1, p. 25.

Not in Barton Collection catalog.

ESTC S102322

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Francis Bedford in red morocco panelled in gilt.The armorial bookplate of Frederick Locker is present on the front pastedown and the bookplate of Marsden J. Perry and Frederick Spiegelberg are present at front. Several bibliographical inscriptions, in pencil, are present on the verso of the front free enpaper and front flyleaf recto. An early inscription, faded, is present on the title page. The bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund is present on the rear pastedown.