The Turke
Subtitle: a worthie tragedie : as it hath bene diuers times acted by the Children of His Majesties Revels
By: written by John Mason maister of artes
Contributors: Allde, Edward, -1627, printer; Busby, John, -1613, bookseller; Willson, Mary, former owner; Holgate, William,  former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed by E[dward]. A[llde]. for John Busbie and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstons Church-yard in Fleete-Streete
Published: 1610
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Other titles: Mulleasses the Turke; The Tvrke; Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Mostly in verse.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: [pi]℗ø(printed as part of sheet K) B-Íþ K℗ø (K2 signed K3)

Caption and running title: Mulleasses the Turke.

Title page vignette; headpieces; initials.

"The note following the epilogus, verso of the second [third] unsigned leaf, indicates very graphically the practice of the early printers of setting up text before the preliminaries for it reads: 'This Epilogue should haue bene printed at the end of the booke, but there was no spare place for it'."--Pforzheimer

ESTC S112425

Greg 286(a)

Pforzheimer, 674

STC 17617

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early (19th-century) calf panelled in a blind tooled Greek key motif. The armorial bookplate of William Holgate is present on the front pastedown and that of the Barton Library on the rear. An early, partially-legible autograph on the front flyleaf appears to read, "Mary Willson's." Pforzheimer et al., from whom the signature statement in this record is derived, indicate an initial gathering of two leaves printed as part of the final sheet (K). However, in the copy described herein, the first gathering is of three, rather than two single leaves, with the first (blank) leaf sharing the same watermark present in all the other sheets.