Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1906
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/210
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Churchyard by John Kyng, 1560. Hazlitt (Play-Collector’s Manual) gives a date 1560, but no printer’s name. The latter reprinted it in his new edition of Dodsley, but, query, from what edition? Fleay notes a Performance by the Children of Pauls Aug. 5, 1559. , aelel () ? / and a very merye enter- | lude of all maner Wethers | MADE By JHon Hey | woope. | The players names | Jupiter a god. | Mery report the Vyce. | The Gentleman. | The Merchante. | The Ranger. The Water Miller. | The Winde Miller. | The Gentlewoman. | The Launder.—A boye the leste that can playe. | black letter (24 J/.), in rhymed Verse ; small hole in C wir; some headlines shaved ; sheet D, though smaller than the rest, has rough lower edges, otherwise a4 PERFECT SOUND AND CLEAN copy, unbound, sm. 4to. [no imprint on tatle], Colophon [at end], Imprinted at Lon | don by John Awdeley dwelling | in little Britayne Streete, beyonde Aldersgate, n. d. EXCESSIVELY Rare. It ‘was printed frst in 1533. Halliwell mentions an Edivion in 4to. (A. Wyer, n.d.), and Hazlitt says probably printed between 1560-65.” very mery and full of | Pastyme, newly at this tyme | Im- printed. | 4] The Names of the Players. | Weltb. Ilwyll. Hance. | Helth. Shrowdwyt. Remedy. | Lybertie. | foure may easely play this playe. | black letter (16 11.), some lower margins shaved, otherwise perfect and in good condition, unbound, sm. 4to. no place, date, or printer’s name [15—] THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE PRE- SHAKSPEARIAN Comepies. Halliwell speaks of it as 8vo, and Hazlitt can only copy him. The size is sm. 4to; it is very badly printed ; it is written in rhymed lines. The author is unknown ; IT MAY BE UNIQUE. Lowndes mentions it only from Coxeter’s Notes, and calls it 8vo. It was entered on the Stationers’ Books, 1577-8. It was known in 1661, and is mentioned in the Catalogue of Plays issued by N. Brook and others, of that date. MirrH, containing the Lirze or Camsises, Kine or PEREIA (s?e), from the beginning of his King- | dome, unto his death, his owne good deed of execu- | tion, after that many wicked deedes and tyrannous mur- | ders, committed by and through him, and last | of all, his odious death by God’s Justice | appointed and Done in such order | as followeth. | by Thomas Preston. | The division of the parts. | .. . black fetter (title in roman)
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