The maides tragedy
Subtitle: as it hath beene diuers times acted at the Blacke-Friers by the Kings Maiesties Seruants
Contributors: Fletcher, John, 1579-1625, author; Okes, Nicholas, printer; Constable, Francis, -1647, bookseller; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Francis Constable and are to be sold at the White Lyon ouer against the great north doore of Pauls Church
Published: 1619
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Other titles: Maydes tragedy; Maid's tragedy
Notes: Printer's name from STC.

Stationer's Register: Entered to Constable and R. Higgingbotham 28 April 1619.--ESTC.

Signatures: [A]℗ø B-Ĺþ ([A]1 blank)

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

A variant of the edition with Richard Higgenbotham in the imprint.

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 42

English short title catalogue, entry S115757

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, vol. II, entry 357

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 1676

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in ca. 19th-century black morocco and marbled paper. The title is stamped in gilt along the spine. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. An auctioneer's description, dated in the hand of T.P. Barton to the Halliwell sale of May, 1857, is present on the verso of the front free endpaper. A manuscript attribution of authorship is present on the title page. In this copy, the first (blank) leaf is wanting.