Loues labours lost
Subtitle: a vvittie and pleasant comedie as it was acted by his Maiesties seruants at the Blacke-Friers and the Globe
By: written By william Shakespeare
Contributors: Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer; Smethwicke, John, -1641, publisher; Lewis, Charles, 1786-1836, binder; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed by W[illiam]. S[tansby]. for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstones Church-yard vnder the diall
Published: 1631
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Work titles: Love's labour's lost
Notes: Signatures: A-Iþ́

Woodcut title page vignette (Smethicke's device); headpieces; initials.

Bartlett, H.C.  Shakespeare early editions, 53

Bartlett & Pollard.  Shakespeare's quartos (rev. ed.), 570

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, 383

ESTC S111183

STC (2nd ed.), 22295

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in maroon triple panelled morocco grained leather with gilt board edges and turn-ins. All text block edges are gilt. Signficant paper repairs have been performed on several leaves, including the title page (A)́. A note from the English book collector J.O. Halliwell Phillipps is present on the front flyleaf verso. Thomas Pennant Barton purchased this copy in 1857. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown.