Five new playes, (viz.) The madd couple well matcht. Novella. Court begger. City witt. Damoiselle. By Richard Brome.
Contributors: Brome, Alexander, 1620-1666; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1436:15-16; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1773:4
Publisher: printed [by T[homas] R[oycroft]] for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops
Published: 1653
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 482
Other titles: Novella; Court begger; City wit; Damoiselle
Notes: Partly in verse

Editor's dedication signed: A. Brome

The words "madd couple .. Damoiselle." are bracketed together on title page

The portrait is signed: T. Cross sculpsit

Printer's name from the Pforzheimer Catalogue. "The copy was divided between two compositors. One set-up through sheet S; the other, the remainder"--Pforzheimer Catalogue

Signatures: pi1 A (-A6-8) B-S; A-F Gp4s; Ap4s B-F G1-3 (=A6-8)

"The novella" and "The court begger" each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. "The city wit" (Wing B4866) and "The damoiselle" (Wing B4868) each have separate register and dated title page with "printed by T.R." in imprint. There is no indication that the latter two plays were ever issued separately, though they are sometimes found so (Greg)

Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 20"

"The Novella" identified at reel 1773:4 as Wing B4880 (number cancelled); Wing 2nd ed., rev. identifies this as part of B4870

Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Harvard University Library

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4870

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4866

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4868

Pforzheimer 107

Thomason E.1423[1]

Greg, III, p. 1021-22

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1983, 1987. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1436:15-16, 1773:4).