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Sixe court comedies. Often presented and acted before Queene Elizabeth, by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules. Witten [sic] by the onely rare poet of that time, the witie, comicall, facetiously-quicke and vnparalelld: Iohn Lilly, Master of Arts.

  • Author

    Lyly, John

  • Date published

    1632

  • Publisher

    London : printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount, 1632.

General note: Signatures: A6 B-2D¹². The first leaf is blank. "Campaspe" (a reprint of STC 17048), "Sapho and Phao" (STC 17086), "Gallathea" (STC 17080), "Mydas" (STC 17083), and "Mother Bombie" (STC 17084) each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. Also includes "Endimion" (STC 17050). Dedication signed "Ed. Blount". Variant 1: title has "actted" and "eacetiously-"; dedication signed "Ed. Blunt". These states represent stages of stop-press correction of sheet A; the fully corrected state, with "wittie" in the title, is STC 17089. Leaves O7-10 and 2C9-10 are correctly imposed. Variant 2: leaves O3-10 and 2C3,4.9,10 in an earlier setting, wrongly imposed. This variant is independent of the title-page variants. Entered 9 January 1628. Variant 2; -A1 (blank); unsigned MS. pencil notes (1900?) at rear UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 17088 Greg, III, p. 1088-9 Pforzheimer, 635 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1963. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 965:14). Ownership and custodial history: Donated by Stanley Cooper; deposit from RSC UK-SuSCL