Two tragedies
Subtitle: viz. Cleopatra, Queene of Aegypt, and Agrippina, Empress of Rome
By: written by Thomas May
Contributors: Moseley, Humphrey, -1661, bookseller; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1654.
Published: 1654
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Notes: Signatures: A℗ø(-A1+chi℗ø) B-D℗£℗ø Éþ, ℗øA℗£℗ø(-A1,2,11,12+chi℗ø) B-D℗£℗ø Éœ.

General title printed on chi1v. Each work has a special title page.

Leaf ℗øchi1 is blank.

Leaves ℗øA11-12 are cancelled.

Title page vignettes; head- and tailpieces; initials.

The two tragedies, originally issued separately in 1639, were reissued in 1654 with cancel titles, a single 8vo leaf, verso blank, dated 1654, being prefixed to a collection of the separate 1639 editions (see Greg).

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 372

English short title catalogue R30520

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, vol. 3, p. 1092 (cf. his 553 Aii, 554 Aii)

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M1416

Cataloged 20151130 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century red goatskin panelled in gilt and blind. The spine is paneled and tooled in gilt, with the title likewise stamped. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. A leaf with a bibliographical inscription initialed "J.F." and corrected by T.P. Barton is bound-in after the front free endpaper. This copy is bound out of order, with Julia Agrippina before Cleopatra. Julia Agrippina is interleaved. The general title page (chi1) is wanting.