The love of King David and fair Bethsabe
Subtitle: with the Tragedie of Absalon, as it hath ben diuers times plaied on the stage
By: written by George Peele
Contributors: Islip, Adam, -1639, printer; Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner; Holgate, William, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed by Adam Islip
Published: 1599
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Other titles: Tragedie of Absalon
Notes: Based in part on a work by Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur du Bartas.--Cf. ESTC

Signatures: [A]℗ø(-A)́ B-Hþ́ I℗ø

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

ESTC S110364

STC (2nd ed.) 19540

Greg, no. 160(A)

Pforzheimer, 791

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy interleaved and halfbound in red morocco and stormont marbled paper over boards. The armorial bookplate of William Holgate is present on the front pastedown and that of the Barton Library at the rear. The ink stamp of Richard Heber is present on the second front flyleaf and a pricing inscription, in Heber's hand, is present on the first. Only the first two interleaved sheets contain inscriptions. The first is a lengthy biographical sketch of George Peele. The second interleaved sheet contains a list of dramatis personae. A ́and I,́ both blank, are wanting.