The gamester
Subtitle: as it was presented by Her Majesties Servants at the private house in Drury-Lane
By: written by Iames Shirly
Contributors: Norton, John, -approximately 1640, printer; Crooke, Andrew, -1674, bookseller; Cooke, William, active 1632-1642, bookseller; Yeates, Thomas, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed by Iohn Norton, for Andrew Crooke, and William Cooke
Published: 1637
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Notes: Signatures: A-Íþ K℗ø.

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

Imprimatur on K2 verso: Tho[mas]. Wykes.

K2 verso begins "As when she ..". Early variant: K2 verso omits this line and begins "Wi. I am .."

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 22443

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, vol. II, entry 523

English short title catalogue, entry S105182

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, p.

Cataloged 20151027 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3976.49 halfbound in early black painted morocco and gray paper. The title is stamped in gilt along the spine. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. An early Greek inscription is present on the title page and a similar inscription, in pencil, is present at the head of F2 recto. An early manuscript correction is present on I1 verso. In this copy, K2 verso begins with "As when she".

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3976.50 halfbound in early maroon painted morocco and marbled paper. The title is stamped in gilt along the spine. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. Leaves A1 and A4 are wanting, here replaced in ca. 18th-century pen facsimile on laid paper. An additional manuscript leaf is inserted before A2 containing a list of "persons represented" on its recto. The autograph of Thomas Yeates, in a ca. 17th-century hand, is present on B1 recto. This copy contains the typographical peculiarity ascribed by the ESTC to an early variant state of K2.