St. Patrick for Ireland. The first Part.

£8,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Part 1 (all published, and probably all written). STC 22455. Greg, English Drama , 593 (A). Reprinted with a life of Shirley by W. R. Chetwood in 1750 (Dublin) and 1751 (London). ESTC lists 9 copies in the UK outside the British Library which has one complete copy, a copy made-up by T. J. Wise for himself and the copy mutilated by him); Folger [x 2 (one lacks the title; the other has had A1-3, I2-3, and I1 or I4 supplied)], Huntington [ex Bridgewater], Harvard [not in HOLLIS], Newberry Library, Library of Congress, Texas Christian University, UC-W.A.Clark, University of Chicago [bound with other Shirley plays], University of Illinois [bound with other plays by Shirley], University of Pennsylvania [all leaves detached, mounted, and cropped], University of Texas at Austin [x 3 (one lacks the title and another, ex Wrenn,has had leaves supplied, including the title, by T. J. Wise, presumably from the BL copies)], Yale [Elizabethan Club (title and 3 other leaves mutilated, other leaves repaired]. No copy recorded in Ireland. Commercially scarce: the last copy listed on Rare Book Hub before the present (purchased in 2023) was sold in 1966 but that resource omits the Sir Edmund Gosse - Robert S Pirie copy (Sotheby, New York, 2/12/2015, part of lot 318) subsequently with Bernard Quaritch (unnumbered English Literature, Summer 2016, item 68 and Stuart Bennett Cat. LXXIII/89.) Reissued by Joshua Kirton in 1657 as part of Two Playes. The Constant Maid. A Comedy. And St Patrick for Irela

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