A right excellent and famous comedy, called The three ladies of London. : VVherein is notablie declared and set forth, how by the meanes of lucar, loue and conscience is so corrupted, that the one is married to dissimulation, the other fraught with all abhomination. A perfect patterne for all estates to looke into, and a worke right worthie to be marked. Written by R.W. as it hath been publiquely plaied.
1592
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A right excellent and famous comedy, called The three ladies of London. : VVherein is notablie declared and set forth, how by the meanes of lucar, loue and conscience is so corrupted, that the one is married to dissimulation, the other fraught with all abhomination. A perfect patterne for all estates to looke into, and a worke right worthie to be marked. Written by R.W. as it hath been publiquely plaied.
Uniform title
Three ladies of London
Created/published
At London : Printed by Iohn Danter, dwelling in Ducke Lane, neere Smithfield, 1592.
Description
[48] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Wilson, Robert, -1600. author.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, former owner.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, former owner.
Note
R.W. = Robert Wilson.
In verse.
Signatures: A-F⁴.
Signed on F3v, following "FINIS.", "Paule Bucke.", supposedly the actor who transcribed the play for printing (DFo).
The last leaf is blank.
In verse.
Signatures: A-F⁴.
Signed on F3v, following "FINIS.", "Paule Bucke.", supposedly the actor who transcribed the play for printing (DFo).
The last leaf is blank.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 25785
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, I, 85(b)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 1076
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S111803
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, I, 85(b)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 1076
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S111803
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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STC 25785 copy 1
Folger-specific note
ac6186. Cropped, affecting headlines. Formerly bd. with Chapman, The blinde beggar of Alexandria, 1598 (shelf-mark STC 4965), and 11 other plays. Rebound, previously bd. in vellum. Provenance: Cole Orton Hall library copy
Call number
STC 25785 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs0361. Lacking blank. Sig.A with inner margins repaired. Trimmed, affecting headlines. B1 and C1 cropped and repaired, affecting text. Sheepskin binding with gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt. Provenance: pencilled note on front free end-paper: "Devonshire"; Huntington library duplicate copy; bookplate of Herschel V. Jones; bought by Folger from the Jones sale, 4 March 1919, lot 1663