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<dl><dd>An adaptation of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens</dd>
<dd>Printer's name from Wing CD</dd>
<dd>In this setting, title date reads "1677/8" and leaf A4v bears "Persons names". Another setting has title date "1678/7" and leaf A4v is blank</dd>
<dd>"The alteration consists mainly in the introduction of two women, Evandra, who, though deserted by Timon in his prosperity, seeks him out and dies with him in his cave, and Melissa, who is false both to Timon and Alcibiades."--Barton Collection catalog</dd>
<dd>Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue</dd>
<dd>Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)</dd>
<dd>Woodward &amp; McManaway</dd>
<dd>ESTC</dd>
<dd>Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in late 19th-/early 20th-century brown morocco and papier tourniquet (as described by Wolfe in Marbled papers). All text block edges are marbled. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
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<dl><dd>Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692</dd>
<dd>Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Timon of Athens</dd>
<dd>Herringman, Henry, -1704, bookseller</dd>
<dd>Macock, John, printer</dd>
<dd>Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner</dd></dl></div>
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