A pleasant conceited comedy, . wherein is shewed, how a man may choose a good wife from a bad. As it hath beene sundry times acted by the Earle of Worcesters Seruants.
Thomas Heywood (d.1641)
Category
Books
Date
1630
Materials
Measurements
184 x 143 x 51 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 3007874
Summary
Bibliographic description
Final leaf = L2 . 4to.. Manuscript volume contents list in a seventeenth-century hand. Old shelfmarks in ink: Q:6:19; I7.11; F.5.11. Old shelfmarks in pencil: F1-6; 18/4. Provenance: Gilt centrepiece on both covers: crescent moon, surrounded by garter motto with earl's coronet on top. Printed slip: Earl of Egremont, Petworth. Binding: Sprinkled calf, red sprinkled edges, double gilt fillet frame, gilt centrepieces (boxed).
Makers and roles
Thomas Heywood (d.1641) Jo. Cooke (fl.1614)