SC #: 1292

Location: National Trust, Petworth

Shelfmark: PET 12

Copy-specific notes: Title page cropped; L4-M2 cropped at foot affecting text; in faded at bottom of C2r. In a volume containing 10 plays: 1) George Peele, David and Bathsheba (1599); 2) John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn (1606); 3) George Wilkins, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607); 4) John Marston, What you Will (1607); 5) Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist’s Tragedy (1611); 6) Richard III; 7) Barton Holyday, Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts (1618); 8) James Shirley, The Wedding (1629); 9) William Rowley, A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed (1632); 10 William Rowley, All’s Lost by Lust (1633)

Provenance: Crashaw, Richard (17th c.); Cundel, Judith (17th c.); Egremont, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl (1710-1763); Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl (1602-1668); Randall, William (17th c.)

Provenance notes: On title page of David and Bathsheba: "Rich. Crashaw"; on title page of Parasitaster, "Prec. 2s 6d"; on last leaf of Parasitaster, "William Randall" (twice); on blank leaf after What You Will: "Judith Cundel"; on title page of The Wedding, some writing cropped above "May 15 1631"'; on title page of A New Wonder: "Rich: Crashaw". Probably acquired in the 17th century by Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland; bound around 1750 by the Earl of Egremont; and embossed with the Percy arms in the 19th century. Entered National Trust in 1947 as payment in lieu of inheritance tax.

Marginalia: On front pastedown: "18/4"; "F. 5. 6"; "I 7. 6"

Binding: Gilt centrepiece on both covers: crescent moon, surrounded by garter motto with earl's coronet on top. Sprinkled calf, red sprinkled edges, double gilt fillet frame, gilt centrepieces (boxed).

Bookplate: Earl of Egremont

Bookplate location: Front pastedown

Bartlett 1939 #: 1056

Bartlett 1939 notes: PETWORTH. 7 x 4 7/8". N4 cropped at bottom injuring one line of text. Acquired before 1750. Bound in sprinkled calf, with Northumberland arms on sides, with other plays.