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CHAPMAN (GEORGE), BEN JONSON AND JOHN MARSTON Eastward Hoe. As it Was Playd in the Black-friers. By the Children of her Maiesties Revels. Made by Geo: Chapman. Ben: Jonson. Joh: Marston, Printed [by…
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CHAPMAN (GEORGE), BEN JONSON AND JOHN MARSTON Eastward Hoe. As it Was Playd in the Black-friers. By the Children of her Maiesties Revels. Made by Geo: Chapman. Ben: Jonson. Joh: Marston, collating A-H⁴ and with "opposd" spelling on line 5 of the Prologus, woodcut ornament on title-page, approximately 21 running titles shaved (3 cropped), one catchword/signature for C2 shaved, early twentieth-century blind-stamped calf, gilt lettered on spine, uneven fading and some abrasions [ESTC S107964; Greg, I, 217(c); cf. Pforzheimer 149], small 4to (182 x 125mm.), Printed [by George Eld] for William Aspley, 1605 Scarce Jacobean play written collaboratively by three great playwrights. When first printed the play had several passages with anti-Scottish sentiments; the infuriated King James "caused the imprisonment of the authors and very nearly according to report the loss of their ears" (Pforzheimer). These passages were excised in the next two editions which were printed shortly afterwards in the same year.
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CHAPMAN (GEORGE), BEN JONSON AND JOHN MARSTON Eastward Hoe. As it Was Playd in the Black-friers. By the Children of her Maiesties Revels. Made by Geo: Chapman. Ben: Jonson. Joh: Marston, Printed [by…

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Lot Details

Lot #
139
Currency
GBP
Location
London, GB
Lot Ends
3 Dec 2026, 15:18:00
Auction Ends
3 Dec 2026, 16:47:00
Auction Started
23 Nov 2026
Lots in Auction
228

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