Five new playes
Subtitle: viz ...
By: by Richard Brome
Contributors: Brome, Alexander, 1620-1666, editor; Crooke, Andrew, -1674, bookseller; Brome, Henry, bookseller; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner; Hughs, Hugh, former owner; Parry, Madam, former owner; Davis, Mary, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed for A. Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard, and for H. Brome at the Gunn in Ivy-Lane
Published: 1659
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Other titles: Five nevv playes; Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: "The English moor" (Thomason E.1782[1])--and "The love-sick court" (E.1782[2]) have separate title pages, continuous pagination and register, and a final leaf of epilogue. "Covent Garden weeded" (E.1782[3]) and "The nevv academy" (E.1782[4]) have separate title pages, continuous register, separate pagination, and a final leaf of bookseller's advertisements. "Covent garden weeded" has title page which reads: "The weeding of the Covent-Garden". "The queen and concubine" (E.1782[5]) has its own title page, continuous pagination and register, and a final leaf of advertisements.

"The queen and concubine" is dated 1659. "The English Moor" has two separate title pages, one dated 1659, the other 1658. The remainig plays are dated 1658.

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B3 is missigned "A3."

Title page vignettes; head- and tailpieces.

Edited by Alexander Brome.

Bookseller's advertisements: leaf (O8)--at end of "The nevv academy" and final leaf (K2).

Errata on verso of K2.

See Greg for individual plays, p. 806-810.

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Misc. p. 67

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B4872

ESTC R209758

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171130 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early, mottled calfskin panelled in blind and rebacked in brown morocco. The English Moor has an additional, cancel title page bound-in. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown and the ink stamp of John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, is present on the title page verso along with an early ex-libris inscription by Hugh Hughs. Two early autographs are present on the verso of K1: "Mad'm Parry" and "Mary Davis, her hand, 1724." Leaf K2 is wanting.
Table of contents: title: (From title page) The English Moor, or, The mock-marriage; title: The love-sick court, or, The ambitious politique; title: Covent Garden weeded [separate t. p.: The weeding of the Covent-Garden, or, The Middlesex-Justice of Peace]; title: The nevv academy, or, The nevv exchange; title: The queen and concubine.