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The malcontent

by: Marston, John, 1575?-1634; Webster, John, 1580?-1625?, author of introduction, etc; Simmes, Valentine, active 1585-1622, printer; Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller; Tuckett, Charles, binder; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm), auctioneer

Publication date: 1604

Publisher: At London : Printed by V[alentine]. S[immes]. for William Aspley, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard

Collection: bplsctpbs; bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

The Induction is written by John Webster

Printer's name from STC

"Quires B-E ... are by another printer".--STC

Signatures: A-H⁴ I².

The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"

The first word of the title is xylographic

Imprint transposed: date appears before place and printing statement

Catalogue of the Barton collection, Boston Public Library (1888 edition), p. 366

English short title catalogue, S112289

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, 203(b)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 17480

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 660

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.3974.7 bound by Charles Tuckett in green morocco-grained leather double-paneled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Sotheby's auction description on verso of front free endpaper. Many pages closely trimmed, with losses to running titles. Paper repairs throughout. Leaf A1 (blank) wanting. Print evidence and typographical peculiarities of this copy most closely match it to the description in Pforzheimer no. 660 and Greg 203(b). However, in this copy, the final leaf is I1, which is printed on both sides, the verso containing the epilogus. Purchased from the Halliwell-Phillipps sale of May 21, 1857.

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Addeddate: 2016-02-24 16:47:42

Associated-names: Webster, John, 1580?-1625?, author of introduction, etc; Simmes, Valentine, active 1585-1622, printer; Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller; Tuckett, Charles, binder; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner; S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm), auctioneer