| Content Description | Volume bears the title 'The Sullen Lovers - Thomas Shadwell' gold-stamped on the spine.
The MS is in the hand of a professional scribe. The corrections and revisions are made, apparently by Shadwell himself, on pp. 2, 7, 10, 15, 25, 48, 53 and 55.
Thomas Shadwell provided the title 'The Sullen Lovers or The Impertinents. A Comedy' on the title page, and inscribed it to his patron 'For his Grace the Duke of Newcastle'. |
| Descriptive Features | Watermark: Strasbourg Lily, 125 x 55 mm (Type A, ff 1-2)
Countermark: Letters LM, 25 x 50 mm (With Type A)
Watermark, double: Strasbourg Lily, 140 x 70 mm; secondary watermark: large monogram IHS surmounted by Roman Cross with letters IA suspended from the main form, 52 x 53 mm (Type B, ff 3-42).
Plain burgundy buckram upper and lower covers with burgundy leather spine and a gold-stamped line on leather in both covers; two double horizontal lines gold-stamped at head and tail of spine; binder has added two front and two back flyleaves. |