ESTC T43500. Western copy listed. Folger notes:
With a half-title.
Engraved frontispiece lettered: F. Hayman del.; C. Grignion sculp.
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 4967
Spevack, Halliwell-Phillipps Bibliography, 1885:6. Contains illustrations. Examples: “The Birth-Place in Henley Street, as it appeared in the year 1762”, “A View of Stratford-on-Avon from the Cross-on-the-Hill, a sketch taken in the year 1746”.
ESTC T138251. 3rd Edition. Western copy listed. Folger notes:
Dedication signed: Ralph Register, i.e. Sir Henry Bate Dudley and Mary Dudley, his wife.
"A satire on the leading public characters of the day in a series of passages professing to be quotations from William Ireland’s play; it originally appeared from time to time in the ’Morning herald’ and was written by Dudley and his wife "(D.N.B.).
Approximate date. With reproductions of original title-pages, and woodcutsof Elizabethan dress, from Planché's History of costume and the Roxburghe ballads.
Vol. ix, no. 2, in the L> C. set.With reproduction of original t,-p.: Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the deuill. Describing the ouer-spreading of Vice, and the suppression of Vertue. Pleasantly interlac'd with variable delights: and pathetically intermixt with conceipted reproofes. Written by Thomas Nash,Gentleman. London, Imprinted by Richard Ihones...1592. (From Omni, Same appears in Folger)
"About half the articles are from the Speaker; the rest (except one from Black and white, and a fragment from the Illustrated London news) are from the National observer and the Star"--Pref. note.
Folger notes: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, & Reed.Printer’s name from colophon, v. 9.
Diamond classics--Keynes.
This collected set in 9 volumes issued "1) in red cloth, paper labels, at 2 lbs. 17s, or 2) in morocco at, 4 lbs. 7s. Also issued without the engravings."--Keynes.
For the issue with engravings: each play accompanied by an engraving; frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare in v. 1 engraved by Augustus Fox from a picture painted by T. Stothard.
Also issued by the publisher in XXXVIII parts in original printed wrappers with continuous pagination, cataloged separately (not mentioned by Keynes). Copies bound in 9 volumes not in one of those two bindings may have been individual parts collected and bound by a former owner. In the absence of other information, copies bound as 9 volumes with the general and volume title pages are considered to have been issued as a set by the publisher. Keynes, G. William Pickering publisher (rev. ed.), p. 88
