SC #: 1597

Location: National Trust, Petworth

Shelfmark: PET 10

Copy-specific notes: In a volume containing 10 plays: 1) Thomas Dekker, The Whore of Babylon (1607); 2) Othello (1622); 3) Ben Jonson, Poetaster (1602); 4) Thomas Dekker and John Webster, Northward Ho (1607); 5) Thomas Dekker, 2 Honest Whore (1630); 6) Thomas Dekker, The Wonder of a Kingdom (1636); 7) Love’s Labour’s Lost (1631); 8) 1&2 Troublesome Reign of King John; 9) Ben Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels (1601); 10) George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston, Eastward Ho (1605)

Provenance: Egremont, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl (1710-1763); Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl (1602-1668)

Provenance notes: On title page of Othello, "John [illegible]". 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: MS table of contents on verso of front flyleaf; next to imprint on title pages of Whore of Babylon and Northward Ho (where it is deleted and replaced with "6") and Cynthia's Revels and Eastward Ho: "23"; transcription of beginning of Othello’s final speech in margin of N2r; cropped handwritten list of roles in Othello on N2v; last two lines of Northward Ho copied around FINIS; next to imprint of 1&2 Troublesome Reign of King John: "2.1.2"

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