SC #: 1515

Location: National Trust, Petworth

Shelfmark: PET 16

Copy-specific notes: Imperfect: wanting the final blank. In a volume containing 10 plays: 1) George Peele, The Battle of Alcazar (1594); 2) Thomas, Lord Cromwell; 3) George Chapman, Charles, Duke of Byron (1625); 4) Thomas Goffe, The Courageous Turk, or Amurath (1632); 5) Philip Massinger, The Emperor of the East (1632); 6) Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry (1632); 7) John Ford, The Broken Heart (1633); 8) Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (1633); 9) Thomas Goffe, Orestes (1633); 10) Ben Jonson, Catiline, His Conspiracy (1635). Temoin on H2r of Jew of Malta suggests it was previously unbound or in a larger binding.

Provenance: Egremont, Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl (1710-1763); Fase, Nicholas (17th c.); Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl (1602-1668)

Provenance notes: 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"; "2: 6. 25"; "I 7.1"; "F 5. 1"; MS table of contents on verso of front flyleaf; inscription on G3v, upside down, in a 17C hand: "Niccolas ffass the [trimmed] / is base."

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