The shepheard's paradise
Subtitle: a comedy : privately acted before the late King Charls by the Queen's Majesty, and ladies of honour
By: written by W. Mountague Esq;
Contributors: Starkey, John, active 17th century, bookseller; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed for John Starkey at the Miter, nere the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-Street
Published: 1659
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Notes: Title page is A2.

Signatures: A-Ḿı (A1=blank)

D4 missigned C4.

Title page vignette; headpieces; initials.

English short title catalogue, R2849

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 392

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in early green morocco and marbled papers. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. There are two early inscriptions present on the front free endpaper recto. The first reads "The Roxburghe copy" and the second "Sold for 6 sh." The inscriptions appear to be in two different hands. The ink stamp of Jon Ker, third Duke of Roxburghe is present on the verso of the title page. The first leaf (blank) is wanting.