SC #: 609

Location: National Library of Wales

Shelfmark: STC 5119-20

Notes about issue: For more on this issue, see http://www.shakespearedocumented.org/exhibition/document/phoenix-and-turtle-first-edition

Copy-specific notes: Because this copy lacks all leaves before C2 and after Y4, it is impossible to tell to which issue of the edition these sheets originally belonged. Also lacking the lower half of leaves C2-4 and H1. All remaining leaves restored and extended c. 1850 from what was once nearly a circular residue of text. A typescript note is included, describing this as "the fourth known copy" of Loves martyr.

Provenance: Deacon, Richard (17th c); Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard (1820-1889); Quaritch; Wolfreston, Frances (1607–1677)

Provenance notes: Purchased by the National Library of Wales from Quaritch in February 1983; on the flyleaf in the hand of J. O. Halliwell-Phillips: "A perfect copy of this little book fetched nearly £150 at the Daniel sale"; on page 17: "Frances Wolfreston hor bouk”; on page 71, in another hand: "… 1622 / … as for / the …” (the paper has been washed and repaired, making the annotation only partially legible); on page 85, in the same hand as page 71: "Richard / deacon his / hand and / deed dec / 27 1622”; on page 89, in the same hand: “this for sav (?) / darntan (?) / at … / 1622”; on page 97, in the same hand: "wast thy time / for woe they / lif is losfor (?)… / ths wer smal… / love/Jove (?) … / there to the / same … / for to prove (?) / and … / Richard”

Marginalia: On last verso, in same hand as pages 71, 85, 89, and 97: "manie times as her / be lines or letters for to / spel or dropes of raine / be tenen ris (?) twain so many / times for well my lone / [deleted words] for / … / Cantie (?) is subiack unto age / sicknes the same will steine / and rose so wethered is with age / cannot be yonge againe”, and signed "Richard Deacon his name”; numerous instances of "Nota" and "ad huc" throughout.

Binding: Mid-nineteenth-century half-morocco binding with marbled paper and gold fillet lines on the boards and marbled endpapers. The spine is lettered in gilt: CHESTER'S LOVES MARTYR. 1601.