The elder brother
Subtitle: a comedy : acted at the Black Friers by His Majesties Servants : printed according to the true copy
By: written by John Fletcher Gent
Contributors: Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640, author; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1661
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Other titles: Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Notes: Acts I and V are ascribed to Philip Massinger, who probably completed the play after Fletcher's death.

"Printed from [Greg 515 (b)], which it resembles typographically in such a manner as to suggest that it came from the same press. Both editions may belong to the series of fraudulent or surreptitious reprints issued by Francis Kirkman and his associates about this year."--Greg.

In verse.

Signatures: [A]℗ø B-Íþ K℗ø

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B1587

Greg, II, 515 (d)

ESTC R38680

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Misc., p. 42

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in early calfskin and gray paper over boards. The spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with two brown leather labels. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown.