The triumphant widow, or The medley of humours : a comedy, acted by His Royal Highnes's servants

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Title: The triumphant widow, or The medley of humours : a comedy, acted by His Royal Highnes's servants
Creator: Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676, author
Contributor: Macock, John, printer.
Herringman, Henry, -1704, publisher.
Riviere & Son, binder.
Published / Created: 1677.
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange
Description: His Grace the Duke of Newcastle = William Cavendish.
Signatures: [A]² B-N⁴ O².
Rebound in modern blue morocco by Riviere. Bookplate early state. The press-mark was A.6.16 (altered from A.3) in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance: Sold at the Strawberry Hill sale, day i, lot 35 (with Halifax, Povey, and Talon), to Pickering, £1.10; manuscript note (by Rev. Philip Bliss?) on fly-leaf 'Of Lilly, from Lord Orford's books at Strawberry Hill,' with Bliss's initials of ownership 'P.B. 42' on signature B of each play; Sotheby's, 9 July 1858 (Bliss Sale, Part 1), lot 3163, to Booth, 1/6; Sotheby's 24 November 1937 (Part 2 of Clumber or Newcastle Sale), lot 703, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis, £2.10.0. Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 24 November 1937;
Extent: [4], 98, [2] pages ; 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Plays
Annotations (Provenance)
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Bookplate
Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857 > Ms. notes
Newcastle, Henry Francis Hope, Duke of, 1866-1941 > Ownership

Access: Public
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