Brome, Richard. Five nevv playes : viz. The English moor, or the mock-marriage. The love-sick court, or the ambitious politique. Covent Garden weeded. The nevv academy, or the nevv exchange. The queen and concubine. By Richard Brome

British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661: E.1782[5]
Folger bibliographic ID: 142478
ESTC number: R209758
Wing number: B4872
Folger call number: B4872 copy 2
Folger holdings ID: 144127

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

With vertical half-title: Bromes playes 'The English moor' has 2 separate title pages. Leaf a4r has imprint "printed in the year, 1659"; leaf A1r has imprint "... printed by J.T. for A.C. and Henry Broom, ... 1658.". Register is separate. Also issued separately? Wing B4869A, B4869aA 'The love-sick court.' has a separate title page with imprint '...printed by J.T. for A.C. and Henry Broom, ... 1658.'on leaf [F6]r; pagination and register continuous from 'The English moor'. Leaf L8 bears 'Epilogue' on recto 'The weeding of the Covent-Garden.' has separate title page with imprint '... printed for Andrew Crook, ... and Henry Broom ... 1658.', and separate pagination and register. Leaf [h2] is blank. Quire h inserted between quires G and H. Signature h1 inclosed in parentheses. Also issued separately? Wing B4884 'The new academy' has a separate title page with imprint '... printed for Andrew Crook, ... and Henry Broom ... 1658.' on leaf [h3]r, and separate pagination; register continuous from 'The weeding of the Covent-Garden' 'The queen and concubine.' has a separate dated title page, separate pagination and register. With a final advertisement leaf. Also issued separately? Wing B4881 Annotations on Thomason copies: (E.1782[1]; general titlepage): "Jan"; the '9' in the imprint has been crossed out and replaced with an "8"; (E. 1782[3]: "Jan: January"; (E. 1782[5]): "Jan"; the '9' in the imprint has been crossed out and replaced with an "8" Portions of copy 2 also available as a digital reproduction

Item information about Folger B4872 copy 2

Imperfect: wanting half-title; "English Moor" (1658) t.p.; and leaf O8 (adv.). Titlepages to "English Moor" discussed in Greg, no. 806 which calls the 1659 t.p. a cancel. Provenance: signatures of J. P. Andrews and Cornelius Paine; bookplates of Paine and Thomas Jefferson McKee; J. Mitford copy as bound as volume 2 to go with Brome's "Five new playes", 1653 (smk: B4870 Copy 2)

Uniform title: Plays
Extended title: Five nevv playes : viz. The English moor, or the mock-marriage. The love-sick court, or the ambitious politique. Covent Garden weeded. The nevv academy, or the nevv exchange. The queen and concubine. By Richard Brome
Alternate titles: New academy, Bromes playes, Weeding of the Covent-Garden, Five new playes

author: Brome, Richard, -1652?
former owner: McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899
former owner: Mitford, John, 1781-1859
former owner: Bridgewater House Library