Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English LiteratureKent, Henry Watson
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Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature
Kent, Henry Watson
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"E. P." was Elizabeth Purslowe, the widow of George Purslowe,
who this year began to carry on "at the east end of Christ
church" the business followed there by her husband since 1614.
The printer's mark is the one used by the famous family of
French printers, the Estiennes.
Seile, whose labors covered a period of twenty years, was one
of the many publishers of Massinger's books.
Quarto.
COLLATION: _A-M2, in fours. Without pagination._
JOHN FORD
(1586-1639)
22. The | Broken | Heart. | A Tragedy. | Acted | By the Kings
Majeſties Seruants | at the priuate Houſe in the | Black-Friers. |
Fide Honor. | [Printer's ornament] London: | Printed by I. B. for Hugh
Beeston, and are to | be ſold at his Shop, neere the Caſtle in |
Corne-hill 1633.
The words "Fide Honor" are an anagram of Ford's name. Entered
on the Stationers' Register March 28, 1633.
Quarto.
COLLATION: _A, three leaves; B-K, in fours. Without pagination._
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
(1564-1593)
23. The Famous | Tragedy | Of | The Rich Ievv | Of Malta. | As It Was
Playd | Before The King And | Queene, In His Majesties | Theatre at
White-Hall, by her Majeſties | Servants at the Cock-pit. | Written
by Christopher Marlo. | [Printer's ornament] London; | Printed by I.
B. for Nicholas Vavaſour, and are to be ſold | at his Shop in the
Inner-Temple, neere the | Church. 1633.
Marlowe probably wrote the play not earlier than 1588, because
the line in the opening speech of _Machevill_, "And now the
Guize is dead," refers to the Duc de Guise, the organizer of
the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew, who died in that year.
The tragedy was acted many times before it was entered in the
Stationers' Register by the two publishers, Nicholas Ling and
Thomas Millington, in 1594; but for some reason it was not
printed even then. When finally issued in the form shown here,
it was under the editorship of Thomas Heywood, the dramatist,
who explains his connection with the work in his dedication to
Thomas Hammon:
"This Play, compoſed by ſo worthy an Authour as Mr. Marlo;
and the part of the Jew preſented by ſo vnimitable an
Actor as Mr. Allin, being in this later Age commended to the
Stage: As I vſher'd it into the Court, and preſented it
to the Cock-pit, with theſe Prologues and Epilogues here
inſerted, ſo now being newly brought to the preſſe I
was loth it ſhould be publiſhed without the ornament of an
epistle...."
Quarto.
COLLATION: _A-K2, in fours. Without pagination._
GEORGE HERBERT
(1593-1643)
24. The | Temple. | [Four lines] By M^r. George Herbert. | [Quotation]
Cambridge | Printed by Thom. Buck, | and Roger Daniel, printers | to
the Univerſitie. | 1633.
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