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1629	Carlell, Lodowick	The Deserving Favorite
Reference Information DEEP #: 738 Greg #: 423a STC/Wing #: 4628 Record Type: Single-Play Playbook Play Type: Adult Professional Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy Book Edition: 1 Play Edition: 1 Format: Quarto Leaves: 52 Date of First Publication: 1629 Date of First Production: 1629 [c.1622-1629] Company of First Production: King's Men Company Attribution: King's Men Total Editions: 1 quarto, 1 octavo Title-Page Features Title: The Deseruing FAUORITE. Author: Written by LODOWICKE CARLELL, Esquire, Gentle-man of the BOWES, and Groome of the King and Queenes Priuie Chamber. Performance: As it was lately Acted, first before the Kings Maiestie, and since publikely at the BLACK-FRIERS. By his MAIESTIES Seruants. [var.: "MAIESIES"] Imprint: AT LONDON, Printed for MATHEW RHODES. 1629. Paratextual Material Dedication: Epistle to: Thomas Carey (son of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth); and William Murray (1st Earl of Dysart); from: Lodowick Carlell [A2r] To the Reader: "The Printers Epigrammaticall Epistle to the vnderstanding Reader" signed "I. R." [A2v] Character List: "The Names of the Actors" [A3v] Actor List: part of "The Names of the Actors" [A3v] Stationer Information Printer: Stansby, William Publisher: Rhodes, Matthew Entries in Stationers' Register: Mar 7, 1653: Transferred from John Rhodes to Humphrey Moseley: "a booke or Copie called The deseruing Fauourite Written by Lodowick Carlell Esq^r. formerly printed in the name of Mathew Rhodes his Brother, but for the vse & benefite of the said Iohn Rhodes."