Sixe Court Comedies. Often Presented and Acted before Queene Elizabeth, by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules.
1632
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Sixe Court Comedies. Often Presented and Acted before Queene Elizabeth, by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules.
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Title-page Attribution: Written By the onely Rare Poet of that Time, The Wittie, Comicall, Facetiously-Quicke and vnparalleld Iohn Lilly, Master of Arts.
A collection of ‘Campaspe’ (a reprint of STC 17048), ‘Sapho and Phao’ (STC 17086), ‘Gallathea’ (STC 17080), ‘Mydas’ (STC 17083), and ‘Mother Bombie’ (STC 17084) each have separate dated title pages; signatures are continuous. Also includes ‘Endimion’ (STC 17050)
This is a later state of STC 17088, with ‘wittie’ spelled as such in the title
Other Copies: 13
A collection of ‘Campaspe’ (a reprint of STC 17048), ‘Sapho and Phao’ (STC 17086), ‘Gallathea’ (STC 17080), ‘Mydas’ (STC 17083), and ‘Mother Bombie’ (STC 17084) each have separate dated title pages; signatures are continuous. Also includes ‘Endimion’ (STC 17050)
This is a later state of STC 17088, with ‘wittie’ spelled as such in the title
Other Copies: 13
1632
| Author: | Lyly, John |
| Title: | Sixe Court Comedies. Often Presented and Acted before Queene Elizabeth, by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the Children of Paules. |
| Publication Location: | London |
| Editor: | Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount. |
| Date: | 1632 |
| Language: | English |
| No of scans: | 654 |
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- that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world?
- that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1?
- that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
- that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
- more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?
