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HEYWOOD, Thomas (ca 1570-1641). The Foure Prentises of London, with the Conquest of Jerusalem. As it hath beene divers times acted at the Red Bull, by the Queenes Majesties Servants with good applause. London: Nicholas Okes, 1632.
Small 4o (172 x 117 mm). Woodcut vignette on title. (Woodcut slightly cropped along foremargin, lacking final blank, extreme upper corner of final leaf renewed and with one other marginal repair, few internal repaired tears, some headlines shaved, some light browning.) Modern red morocco, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, by the French Binders. Provenance: Jerome Kern (bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, 2 November 1927, lot 145).
Second edition. "This play was written sometime in the early part of the last decade of the sixteenth century although the first extant edition is dated 1615. It has been surmised that it had been first, surreptitiously, published about 1610 because of a reference in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle IV,i.73" (Pforzheimer). All editions of The Foure Prentises of London are scarce: the last to appear at auction (1615 edition) according to American Book Prices Current was sold in 1960. Greg 333b; Pforzheimer 475; STC 13322.
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Second edition. "This play was written sometime in the early part of the last decade of the sixteenth century although the first extant edition is dated 1615. It has been surmised that it had been first, surreptitiously, published about 1610 because of a reference in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle IV,i.73" (Pforzheimer). All editions of The Foure Prentises of London are scarce: the last to appear at auction (1615 edition) according to American Book Prices Current was sold in 1960. Greg 333b; Pforzheimer 475; STC 13322.
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Leaves A2-4 are lacking. The revised estimate is $600-800.