Sir Gyles Goose-Cappe knight
Subtitle: a comedy lately acted with great applause at the private House in Salisbury Court
Contributors: Chapman, George, 1559?-1634, supposed author; Perry, Hugh, active 1626-1645, bookseller; Ball, Roger, active 1634-1636, bookseller; Rau, E, active 1840-1845, bookbinder; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed for Hugh Perry, and are to be sold by Roger Ball at the golden anchor, in the Strand neere Temple barre
Published: 1636
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Other titles: Early English Playbooks, 1594-1799 (Boston Public Library); Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Signatures: A℗ø B-Ḱþ L℗ø ; L2 verso blank.

Attributed to George Chapman. Cf. ESTC.

Dedication (signed Hugh Perry) speaks of "the Author being dead."

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) S103310

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, 1, 228 [section] variant

Catalogue of the Barton collection, Boston Public Library (1888 edition), p. 527

cataloged 20171107 lrouse

condition reviewed 20171030 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3810.28 the variant without point after "barre".

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3810.28 with armorial bookplate of the Barton Library.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3810.28 with pencilled and inked bibliographical inscriptions on title page and on front and back flyleaves.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3810.28 bound in half cross-grain leather and marbled boards; gilt titling along spine; embossed stamp of bookbinder on front free endpaper: E. Rau, Philada; early stab-holes, worming and paper repairs to textblock throughout.