A challenge for beautie
Subtitle: as it hath beene sundry times acted, by the Kings Majesties Servants at the Blacke-Friers, and at the Globe on the Banke-Side
By: written by Thomas Heywood
Contributors: Raworth, Robert, -1653? printer; Becket, James, active 1636-1641, bookseller; Batten, David, binder; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed by R. Raworth, and are to bee sold by Iames Becket, at his shop in the Inner Temple Gate
Published: 1636
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Other titles: Challenge for beavtie; Chalenge for beauty.
Notes: Signatures: Áþ(-A1) B-Íþ K℗£(=A1)

Quires A, H, and sometimes I have vertical chain lines.

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Misc., p. 272

STC (2nd ed.) 13311

ESTC 104032

Greg, II, 509

Pforzheimer, 474

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.3972.14 halfbound in calfskin amd marbled papers by David Batten. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown, as is an auctioneer's description. Batten's tag is present on the rear pastedown. This copy is trimmed closely with losses to running titles.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.3972.15 halfbound in calfskin and brown paper over boards. The spine is rebacked in brown morocco. This copy is trimmed closely with losses along three edges. In this copy, the epilog is wanting.