The rivall friends
Subtitle: a comoedie, as it was acted before the King and Queens Maiesties, when out of their princely favour they were pleased to visite their Vniversitie of Cambridge, upon the 19. day of March. 1631 : cryed downe by boyes, faction, envie, and confident ignorance, approv'd by the judicious, and now exposed to the publique censure
By: by the author, Pet. Hausted Mr. in Artes of Queenes Colledge
Contributors: Matthewes, Augustine, printer; Robinson, Humphrey, -1670; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Batten, David, binder
Publisher: Printed by Aug. Matthewes for Humphrey Robinson, at the signe of the Three Pidgeons in Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1632
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Notes: Partly in verse.

Signatures: A-Óþ.

Title page vignette; headpieces; initial.

The last leaf is blank.

STC (2nd ed.), 12935

Greg, II, 465

Pforzheimer, 454

ESTC S122568

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound by David Batten in tan calf and marbled papers with a Greek key motif. Rebacked in modern brown morocco with the title stamped in gilt along the spine. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. The binder's ticket of David Batten is present on the rear pastedown. The number 1712 and the word "perfect" are inscribed, in an early hand in the lower left corner of the title page, with the number 5 in the upper right. In this copy the final leaf (blank) is wanting. Many edges trimmed closely with losses to signatures and catchwords.