Eliz 235: Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf. There are a few annotations in the text, and the signatures of Anna Gordon on Z₁r and Janet Williamsone of u₃v. Provenance not traced. and The first edition in Scottish.
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and also contains extracts from Thomas Newton's Thebais (1581). The original scenes show the influence of other contemporary verse, including Lyly's Euphues and the fifth book of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596). The work was apparently intended for performance by the pupils of a grammar school, probably the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle upon Tyne and The final two leaves of the volume contain "A speach deliverd before the founders at the entrance of the schole," in the same hand. The speech refers to the Selby family (George Selby was elected Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1600).
Description:
In English., Title on front cover: Oedpius with a song., Watermark similar to Briquet 11046., and Binding: contemporary full parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
Eliz 199: Bound by Hayday in red leather, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. A few leaves have been remargined. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., Eliz 199: George Daniel's copy, and sold as lot 1453 in his sale by Sotheby's, 26 July 1864, in which the catalog notes: "This is a taller copy than Jolley's, a poor one, bought by Mr. Grenville for [pound sign] 106 at these rooms in 1844. The Bodleian copy is a wretched one, perfect as to leaves, but with several slight defects. The present cannot be called a fine copy, yet still it may be considered the finest known. We are not aware that more than three copies exist.", and The second edition (first, 1593).
Publisher:
Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the signe of the White Greyhound in Paules Church-yard
Eliz 132: Bound in half sheepskin. Numerous passages in the text are underscored, and there are a few annotations in the margins. Gift of Frederick S. Chase, 1912., The first edition, first issue, with pages 108 and 109 incorrectly numbered 110 and 111., and Part of title transliterated from the Greek.
Publisher:
printed by Matthew Simmons, next dore to the Gilded Lyon in Aldersgate street
