Sixe court comedies
Subtitle: Often presented and acted before Queene Elizabeth, by the children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the children of Paules
By: Witten [sic] by the onely rare poet of that time, the witie, comicall, facetiously-quicke and vnparalelld: Iohn Lilly, Master of Arts
Contributors: Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer; Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller; Wilkinson, C. H. (Charles Henry), former owner; Jack Harris Samuels Library
Publisher: Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount
Published: 1632
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 636
Subjects: Children's plays, English; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Six court comedies
Work titles: Plays
Notes: Collection of plays by Lilly, all of which had been previously printed.

"Campaspe" (a reprint of STC 17048), "Sapho and Phao" (STC 17086), "Gallathea" (STC 17080), "Mydas" (STC 17083), and "Mother Bombie" (STC 17084) each have separate dated title page; signatures are continuous.

Dedication signed "Ed. Blount". Variant 1: title has "actted" and "eacetiously-"; dedication signed "Ed. Blunt". These states represent stages of stop-press correction of sheet A; the fully corrected state, with "wittie" in the title, is STC 17089.

Signatures: A⁶ B-2D¹² (A1 blank).

Final p. blank.

Leaves O7-10 and 2C9-10 are correctly imposed. Variant 2: leaves O3-10 and 2C3,4.9,10 in an earlier setting, wrongly imposed. This variant is independent of the title-page variants.

Rare Book copy: With special title page for all but first of the plays.

Rare Book copy: From the library of C. H. Wilkinson with his bookplate engraved by H. J. F. Badeley.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 17088

Greg, III, p. 1088-9

Pforzheimer, 635

English short title catalogue (ESTC), S108991

Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels
Table of contents: title: Endimion; title: Campaspe; title: Sapho and Phao; title: Gallathea; title: Mydas; title: Mother Bombie.