The life of the Dutches of Suffolke
Subtitle: as it hath beene divers and sundry times acted, with good applause
Contributors: Matthewes, Augustine, printer; Emery, Jasper, active 1629-1651, bookseller; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner; Harward, John, former owner; Genest, John, 1764-1839, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Imprinted by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Iasper Emery, at the Howerdeluce in Paules Church-yard
Published: 1631
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Drama; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Life of the Duchess of Suffolk; Life of the Dvtches of Svffolke; Dutches of Suffolke; Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Published anonymously. By Thomas Drue.  Cf. ESTC.

Author and printer's names and place of publication from ESTC.

Signatures: A-Íþ.

Title page vignette; headpiece.

STC (2nd ed.) 7242

Greg 451

ESTC S121836

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Misc., p. 160

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in green leather 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, as is the autograph of John Genest, dated 1825. An auctioneer's description from the Sotheby/Harward sale of Dec., 1858, is tipped-on at front. An early attribution of authorship is inscribed on the title page recto and the ink stamp of Jon Ker, Duke of Roxburghe, is present on the verso. The first (blank) leaf is wanting.