Five new playes, (viz.)
Subtitle: The madd couple well matcht : Novella : Court begger : City witt : Damoiselle
By: by Richard Brome
Contributors: Brome, Alexander, 1620-1666, editor; Cross, Thomas, active 1632-1682, engraver; Roycroft, Thomas, -1677, printer; Moseley, Humphrey, -1661, bookseller; Marriot, Richard, active 17th century, bookseller; Dring, Thomas, -1695, bookseller; Feltham, Mary, former owner; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed [by Thomas Roycroft] for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops
Published: 1653
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Other titles: Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction); Early English Playbooks, 1594-1799 (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Plays
Notes: Partly in verse.

Editor's dedication signed: A. Brome.

The words "madd couple" through "Damoiselle." are bracketed together on title page.

The portrait is signed: T. Cross sculpsit.

Printer's name from the Pforzheimer Catalogue.

Signatures: pi1 Áı(-A6-8) B-Śı; A-F́ı Ǵþ; Áþ B-F́ı G1-3 (=A6-8)

Title page vignettes; head- and tailpieces.

"The novella" and "The court begger" each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. "The city wit" (Wing B4866) and "The damoiselle" (Wing B4868) each have separate register and dated title page with "printed by T.R." in imprint. There is no indication that the latter two plays were ever issued separately, though they are sometimes found so (Greg)

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B4870

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B4866

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B4868

Pforzheimer, 107

Thomason, E.1423[1]

Greg, III, p.1021-22

ESTC R202038

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

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171130 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern black goatskin. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Early autograph on frontispiece leaf recto. Armorial ink stamp of John Ker, third Duke of Roxburghe, on title page verso. Autograph of Mary Feltham at head of epistle dedicatory (A1).