Five new playes, (viz.) The madd couple well matcht. Novella. Court begger. City witt. Damoiselle. By Richard Brome.
| Author/creator | Brome, Richard |
| Other author | Brome, Alexander, 1620-1666. |
| Other author | Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : printed [by T[homas] R[oycroft]] for Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops, 1653. |
| Description | [482] p. : port. (metal cut). |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2264172397 |
| Variant title | Novella. |
| Variant title | Court begger. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Partly in verse. |
| General note | Editor's dedication signed: A. Brome. |
| General note | The words "madd couple .. Damoiselle." are bracketed together on title page. |
| General note | The portrait is signed: T. Cross sculpsit. |
| General note | Printer's name from the Pforzheimer Catalogue. "The copy was divided between two compositors. One set-up through sheet S; the other, the remainder"--Pforzheimer Catalogue. |
| General note | Signatures: pi1 A (-A6-8) B-S; A-F G⁴; A⁴ B-F G1-3 (=A6-8). |
| General note | "The novella" and "The court begger" each have separate dated title page; register is continuous. "The city wit" (Wing B4866) and "The damoiselle" (Wing B4868) each have separate register and dated title page with "printed by T.R." in imprint. There is no indication that the latter two plays were ever issued separately, though they are sometimes found so (Greg). |
| General note | Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 20". |
| General note | "The Novella" identified at reel 1773:4 as Wing B4880 (number cancelled); Wing 2nd ed., rev. identifies this as part of B4870. |
| General note | Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Harvard University Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4870 |
| References | Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4866 |
| References | Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B4868 |
| Citation/References note | Pforzheimer 107 |
| References | Thomason E.1423[1] |
| Citation/References note | Greg, III, p. 1021-22 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1436:15-16, 1773:4) |
| Other title | City wit. |
| Other title | Damoiselle. |
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| Stock number | CL0037000050 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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