The Queenes Arcadia
Subtitle: a pastorall trage-comedie presented to Her Maiestie and Her ladies, by the Vniuersitie of Oxford in Christs Church, in August last, 1605
Contributors: Eld, George, -1624, printer; Waterson, Simon, active 1584-1634, bookseller; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; Bridgewater House Library
Publisher: Printed by G. Eld, for Simon Waterson
Published: 1606
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Other titles: Qveenes Arcadia
Notes: Signatures: A℗ø B-Ḱþ L℗ø(-L2)

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 138

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Resotoration, I, 227(a)

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 246

English short title catalogue S121848

Cataloged 20160121 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in early leather covered over in brown paint. The spine is rebacked in modern, brown morocco. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. The recto and verso of the front free endpaper contains a bibliographical inscription in the hand of Thomas Pennant Barton. An early manuscript attribution of authorship is present on the title page, along with an early manuscript number "4" and the embossed stamp of the BPL. Present on the verso of the title page is the ink stamp of the Bridgewater House Library ("Duplicate Bridgewr. Liby.") Contemporary annotations, in a single hand and in the form of marginalia and corrections, is present.