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A pleasant conceited comedy, wherein is shewed, how a man may choose a good wife from a bad: as it hath been sundry times acted by the Earle of Worchesters Seruants
1621, Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Matthew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe
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Attributed to Thomas Heywood. Sometimes also attributed to "Joshua Cooke" (i.e. John Cooke?).
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-Ḱþ L℗ø.
Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces.
Running title reads: A pleasant conceited comedy, how to choose a good wife from a bad.
Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Misc., page 284
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 5598
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, vol. I, entry 191(e)
English short title catalogue, entry S108521
Cataloged 20151027 jmoschella
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in ca. 19th-century red morocco and marbled papers. The title is stamped in gilt along the spine. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown. An auctioneer's description from the Southeby/Halliwell-Phillipps sale of May 21, 1857 is laid onto the verso of the front free endpaper and a bibliographical inscription in the hand of Thomas Pennant Barton is present on the recto of the front flyleaf. Present on the title page is a 17th-century inscription in the hand of Frances Wolfreston, reading, "[a]n exeding prity on[e]". Her autograph ("Frances Wolfreston her bouk") is present on A2 recto and a manuscript list of dramatis personae, in a later hand, is present on the verso of the title page.
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