DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

[1592?] Anonymous Soliman and Perseda (Zulziman)

Reference Information

DEEP #: 147
Greg #: 109a
STC/Wing #: 22894
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Adult Professional
Genre (Annals): Tragedy
 
Book Edition: 1
Play Edition: 1
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 34
Date of First Publication: [1592?]
Date of First Production: 1592 [c.1589-1592]
Company of First Production: Unknown
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 2 quartos

Title-Page Features

Title: THE TRAGEDYE OF SOLYMAN AND PERSEDA. Wherein is laide open, Loues constancy, Fortunes inconstancy, and Deaths Triumphs.
Author:
Performance:
Imprint: AT LONDON Printed by Edward Allde for Edward White, and are to be solde at the little North doore of Paules Church, at the signe of the Gun.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Colophon: Imprinted at London for Edward White, and are to be sold at his shop, at the little North doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Gunne. [I2v]
Printer: Allde, Edward
Publisher: White, Edward (1)
Imprint Location: A.1 (Paul's Churchyard - Little North Door)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Nov 20, 1592: Entered to Edward White (1): "the tragedye of Salamon and Perceda."
Jun 29, 1624: Transferred from the widow of Edward White (2) to Edward Allde: "Salomon and Bersheba [sic]".
 
Additional Notes: Greg calls this edition a quarto-form octavo [(4°-form) 8°], but it is better described as a large-paper quarto; see G.T. Tanselle, "The Concept of Format," Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 67-115.