BEIN 1978 +82: This copy agrees with the description given by A. W. Pollard's Shakespeare folios and quartos. London, 1909, except that the misprint in the 1st pagination p.33 is correct, and p.67 in the 3d pagination also is correct., BEIN 1978 +82: Bookplate of Thomas Brooke., BEIN Eliz +32 copy 1: Huth copy with bookplate acquired by Alexander Cochran before the Huth sale., and BEIN Eliz +32 copy 2: Bound by Rivière in maroon goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. A number of leaves have been skilfully remargined. Provenance not traced.
Publisher:
Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster,and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, and at the Crane in St. Pauls Church-Yard, and in Russel-Street Covent-Garden
BEIN 1978 +83: West 58. Copy as described by A. W. Pollard's Shakespeare folios and quartos. London, 1909, except that signature V is correctly printed, and the order of the preliminary leaves is: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 5, 8., BEIN 1978 +83: Imperfect: Verses by Ben Jonson inlaid and partially in facsimile, t.-p. in facsimile with portrait from another edition (?), preliminary leaves and final leaf inlaid. Bookplate of John Hall., BEIN Eliz +28: West 232. Purchased about 1790 by Henry Constantine Jennings from bookseller Thomas Payne; acquired about 1820 by George Hibbert, at whose sale it was purchased by John Wilks, M.P.; purchased at Wilks sale by John Dunn Gardner; purchased at Gardner Sale by Henry Huth; acquired before Huth sale by Alexander S. Cochran., Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623., and Signatures: A⁶+¹ [B]² A-Bb⁶ Cc² a-g⁶ gg⁸ h-v⁶ x⁴ [*]² [par.]-2[par.]⁶ 3[par.]¹ aa-ff⁶ gg² Gg⁶ hh⁶ kk-bbb⁶.
BEIN 1978 +81: Binding of Heathcote of Hursely;, BEIN Eliz +30: Huth copy with bookplate acquired by Alexander S. Cochran., First issue of the third folio ed., without the seven additional plays., Signatures: A⁴ b⁶ A-Z⁶ Aa⁶ Bb⁸ Cc-Zz⁶ Aaa-Zzz⁶Aaaa-Dddd⁶ Eeee⁴., and Copy as described by A. W. Pollard's Shakespeare folios and quartos. London, 1909.
Eliz 185: Bound by F. Bedford in brown goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by Valentine Simmes. The first edition.
Publisher:
printed by V.S. for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley
Eliz 194: Bound by F. Bedford in straight-grain green goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition.
Publisher:
by G. Eld for T.T. and are to be solde by Iohn Wright, dwelling at Christ Church gate
Manuscript, on vellum, in several hands, containing several Middle English devotional texts. The Abbey of the Holy Ghost is followed by The Meditation of St. Anselm; The Five Sorrows of the Virgin; and an explanation of how to say the Psalter of the Virgin. These are followed by a poem to the VIrgin ("Mari moder well [th]e bee"); a six-line political poem referring to Edward IV ("The lyon sens thre days"); and a recipe for a medicine for pestilence, in a later hand
Description:
In Middle English., Script: several hands., Decoration: Abbey of the Holy Ghost has initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: modern full red morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483 and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Conduct of life
Eliz 176: Bound by F. Bedford in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., The third edition (first, 1600)., and This is one of ten plays reprinted by William Jaggard in 1619, possibly as part of a collection for which a general title page was never printed. All ten of these quartos are in the Elizbethan Club's collection.
Eliz 181: Bound by F. Bedford in crimson goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., The second edition (first, 1600)., and This is one of the ten plays reprinted by William Jaggard in 1619, possibly as part of a collection for which a general title page was never printed.