DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1654 Webster, John (?) Appius and Virginia

Reference Information

DEEP #: 1093
Greg #: 733a(ii)
STC/Wing #: W1215
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Boys Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 32
Date of First Publication: 1654
Date of First Production: 1624 [c.1624-1634?]
Company of First Production: Beeston's Boys
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 1 quarto
 
Variants: There are five issues of this edition, the first four varying in the imprint. Greg 733a(i) is dated 1654, and lists Marriot as publisher; Greg 733a(ii) is dated 1654, and lists no stationers; Greg 733a(iii) is dated 1655, and lists no stationers; Greg 733a(iv) is dated 1659, and lists Moseley as publisher. The fifth issue, from 1679, Greg 733a(v), is not included in DEEP. See also Greg 733a(i); 733a(iii); 733a(iv)

Title-Page Features

Title: APPIUS AND VIRGINIA. A TRAGEDY.
Author: BY JOHN WEBSTER.
Performance:
Imprint: Printed in the Year 1654.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: [unknown]
Publisher: Marriot, Richard
Entries in Stationers' Register: May 13, 1654: Entered to Richard Marriot: "A Play called Appeus and Virginia Tragedy written by Iohn Webster."
Jun 11, 1659: Transferred from Richard Marriot to Humphrey Moseley: "Appeus & Virginia a Tragedy by Ion Webster."