Histrio-mastix, or, The player whipt
Contributors: Eld, George, -1624, printer; Thorpe, Thomas, 1570?-1635?, bookseller; Holgate, William, former owner; Riviere, Robert, 1808-1882, binder; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed [by George Eld] for Th: Thorp
Published: 1610
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Other titles: Player whipt; Player vvhipt; Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Notes: "Probably a revision by Marston of an earlier play by an unknown author"--Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.)

In verse.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-H́þ (-A1)

headpiece.

The last leaf is blank.

STC (2nd ed.), 13529

Greg, I, 290

ESTC S122282

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound by Robert Riviere in purple morocco and marbled papers. The armorial bookplate of William Holgate is present on the front pastedown and that of the Barton Library is present on the rear. A sale description, inscribed with the date of October, 1860 by Thomas Pennant Barton, is tipped onto on the verso of the front free endpaper, above which the binder's ink stamp is also present. The final, blank leaf (H4) is wanting. The title page is autographed in an early hand and H3v contains multiple inscription, all in an early hand or hands.