DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1616 Middleton, Thomas A Trick to Catch the Old One

Reference Information

DEEP #: 508
Greg #: 262b
STC/Wing #: 17897
Record Type: Single-Play Playbook
Play Type: Boys Professional
Genre (Annals): Comedy
 
Book Edition: 2
Play Edition: 2
Format: Quarto
Leaves: 32
Date of First Publication: 1608
Date of First Production: 1605
Company of First Production: Children of Paul's (second)
Company Attribution: n/a
 
Total Editions: 2 quartos

Title-Page Features

Title: A TRICKE TO CATCH THE OLD ONE.
Author: By T. Midleton.
Performance: As it hath beene often in Action, both at Paules, the Blacke Fryers, and before his Maiestie. [var.: "botth"; "Paules the"; "Fryers and"]
Imprint: AT LONDON. Printed by George Eld, for Thomas Langley and are to be sold at his shop ouer against the Sarazens Head without New-Gate. 1616.

Paratextual Material

None

Stationer Information

Printer: Eld, George
Publisher: Langley, Thomas
Imprint Location: D.9 (Newgate Without - Snow Hill)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Oct 7, 1607: Entered to George Eld: "Two plaies ... thother. A trick to catche the old one".
 
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.