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<dl><dd>Sometimes attributed to William Shakespeare, to Thomas Dekker, to Thomas Heywood, and to others</dd>
<dd>Partly in verse</dd>
<dd>Based on the life of Peter Fabell</dd>
<dd>Not the same work as "The life and death of the merry devill of Edmonton," a pamphlet by Thomas Brewer</dd>
<dd>Printer's name from STC</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-F⁴.</dd>
<dd>The first leaf is blank</dd>
<dd>Title page vignette; headpieces</dd>
<dd>Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue</dd>
<dd>ESTC</dd>
<dd>Greg I, 264(d)</dd>
<dd>STC (2nd ed.)</dd>
<dd>Cataloged</dd>
<dd>Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century calfskin paneled in border of blind floral tooling. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. Auctioneer's description from the Halliwell sale of 1857 laid onto front free endpaper verso. A1 (blank) wanting. "Read" inscribed in a ca. 18th-/19th-century hand at head of title page.</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
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<dl><dd>Dekker, Thomas, approximately 1572-1632, attributed name</dd>
<dd>Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641, attributed name</dd>
<dd>Matthewes, Augustine, printer</dd>
<dd>Falkner, Francis, active 1605-1648, bookseller</dd>
<dd>Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner. MB</dd>
<dd>Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner</dd>
<dd>S. Leigh Sotheby &amp; John Wilkinson (Firm), auctioneer</dd></dl></div>
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