The characters of two royall masques
Subtitle: the one of blacknesse, the other of beautie : personated by the most magnificent of queenes Anne Queene of great Britaine, &c. with her honorable ladyes, 1605. and 1608. at White-hall
By: and inuented by Ben: Ionson
Contributors: Eld, George, -1624, printer; Thorpe, Thomas, 1570?-1635?, publisher; Lisle, Laurence, bookseller; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Hayday & Co
Publisher: [by G. Eld] for Thomas Thorp, and are to be sold [by L. Lisle] at the signe of the Tigers head in Paules Church-yard
Published: 1608
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Other titles: Queenes masques; Description of the masque; Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Notes: Printer's and booksellers' names and publication date from STC.

Signatures: A-Ǵþ

"The description of the masque" has divisional title page; register is continuous.

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, p. 308

STC (2nd ed.), 14761

Greg, I, 269-71(a)

Pforzheimer, 543

ESTC S109233

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Hayday in green morocoo panelled in tripled-ruled gilt and rebacked by the Boston Public Library Bindery. The binder's ink stamp "Bound by Hayday" is present on the front free endpaper and the armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. Leaf A1 (blank) is wanting. The title leaf (A2) has been rebacked and the subsequent three leaves have repaired wormholes.