Catharine and Petruchio
Subtitle: a comedy, in three acts : as it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, and at the Theatre in Edinburgh : alter'd from Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew
By: with alterations and additions, by David Garrick, Esq
Contributors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Jarvie, Mttthew, printer; Cresswick, N., former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed by Matthew Jarvie, and sold at his printing-house on the New-stairs, and by the Booksellers in town
Published: 1756
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Drama; Married people; Man-woman relationships; Sex role
Other titles: Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Notes: ESTC T153264

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Shakespeare, p. 41 no. 622

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in modern brown morocco and papier tourniquet (as described by Wolfe in Marbled papers). The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown and the perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page. The autograph of N. Cresswick is also present on the title page and early annotations and strike-outs are present throughout the text. "This copy belonged to N. Cresswick, who seems to have acted the part of Petruchio at Edinburgh."--Barton catalog.