Eliz 172: Bound by F. Bedford in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, top edge gilt. Individual leaves in sheets I and K have been remargined; headings and catchwords shaved. Corners mended throughout. The James Orchard Halliwell copy, sold by Sotheby's, 21 May 1857, lot 875. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by Simon Stafford. The second edition (first, 1598).
Publisher:
printed by S.S. for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Angell
Eliz 191: Bound in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges; initials of George Daniel on upper side of cover. On H₃v is written in a seventeenth-century hand, "Anagr. Elisabeth Rotton Her lot is to be neat." There are annotations for performance throughout in a seventeenth-century hand., Eliz 191: Signature of George Steevens on the title page, and a few notes by him in the text; this copy was possibly lot 1299 in the Steevens sale by King, 21 May 1800. Bookstamp of the Duke of Roxburghe on the title page; sold as lot 3860 in the Roxburghe sale by Evans, 6 June 1812. This copy was later owned by the Marquis of Blandford, and in his sale (White Knights library) by Evans, 30 June 1819, it was lot 3957., Eliz 191: This copy also appears, as an anonymous property, in a sale by Evans, 25-29 January 1830, lot 796. It was then owned by George Daniel, whose monogram is stamped on the cover; in his sale by Sotheby's, 26 July 1864, it was lot 1430. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., and The second edition (first, 1597). The text of this and later editions represents a different version of the play, fuller than that previously published in the first quarto of 1597.
Publisher:
printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at his shop neare the Exchange
Eliz +33: A fragment only, consisting of four half sheets, uncut and unsewn, as issued, measuring 19.7 by 28.2 cm. Mounted in an album bound in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine. Each leaf bears the British Museum duplicate stamp. Acquired by exchange with the British Museum for the Huth copy, which was complete, November 1911.
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and also contains extracts from Thomas Newton's Thebais (1581). The original scenes show the influence of other contemporary verse, including Lyly's Euphues and the fifth book of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596). The work was apparently intended for performance by the pupils of a grammar school, probably the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle upon Tyne and The final two leaves of the volume contain "A speach deliverd before the founders at the entrance of the schole," in the same hand. The speech refers to the Selby family (George Selby was elected Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1600).
Description:
In English., Title on front cover: Oedpius with a song., Watermark similar to Briquet 11046., and Binding: contemporary full parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
Eliz 199: Bound by Hayday in red leather, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. A few leaves have been remargined. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., Eliz 199: George Daniel's copy, and sold as lot 1453 in his sale by Sotheby's, 26 July 1864, in which the catalog notes: "This is a taller copy than Jolley's, a poor one, bought by Mr. Grenville for [pound sign] 106 at these rooms in 1844. The Bodleian copy is a wretched one, perfect as to leaves, but with several slight defects. The present cannot be called a fine copy, yet still it may be considered the finest known. We are not aware that more than three copies exist.", and The second edition (first, 1593).
Publisher:
Imprinted by Richard Field, and are to be sold at the signe of the White Greyhound in Paules Church-yard