Poetaster, or, The arraignment
Subtitle: as it hath beene sundry times priuately acted in the Blacke Friers, by the Children of Her Maiesties Chappell
By: composed by Ben. Iohnson
Contributors: Bradock, Richard, active 1581-1615, printer; Lownes, Matthew, -1625, bookseller; Herick, Margarett S., former owner; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed [by R. Bradock] for M. L[ownes]. and are to be sould in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde
Published: 1602
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Other titles: The Arraignment; Early English playbooks, 1594-1799 (Boston Public Library); Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Printer's and publisher's names from STC.
Signatures: A-M⁴ N² ( -N2)
Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initial.
Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 308
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 554
English short title catalogue S109365
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 14781
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, I, 186(a)
condition reviewed  20171011  Chris Letizia
Cataloged 20161119 jmoschella
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in red goatskin paneled and tooled in gilt and blind (rear pastedown countermarked with date of 1812). Title stamped in gilt along the spine. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Bookseller's description from the Halliwell-Phillipps sale of May 21, 1857, tipped-on to the verso of the front free endpaper. Evidence of early stab sewing throughout. Ca.17th-century inscription on E1 recto. Early inscription on E2 recto, with lower margin torn away. Inscription on leaf I4 verso: "A man without mony is [illegible]". Early Latin inscription struck-out on N1 verso, with autograph of "Margarett S. Herick" in lower margin.