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Other Title:

Widdow Ranter
History of bacon in Virginia
Widow Ranter

Fingerprint:

oron l.e. rdng reJu (3) 1690 (A)

Subjects:

Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Drama.
Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 17th century.

Place of Publication:

England London.

Notes:

Prologue is signed by Mr. John Dryden. The epilogue is unsigned and apparently not by Dryden. The texts are not the same as those found in "The prologue and epilogue to The history of bacon in Virginia" (Wing D2332).
Bookseller's advertisements: p. [8] (first sequence).
Signatures: A-H⁴.
Type ornaments.

Local notes:

Schimmel Collection copy imperfect: leaf E3 wanting, with a leaf printed with the missing text laid in in its place.
Schimmel Collection copy has early ms. notes (titles and author's name) on title leaf; early ms. transcription and amplification of some text on leaf A2v; ms. inscription in fore-edge margin of leaf F3r (partially excised); some early ms. marks in brown ink in text.
Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy has dated 18th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Mary Hudson her Book June 16th 1777") in brown ink on blank leaf following last printed leaf; early autograph ("Mary Ann Lock London") of Mary Ann Lock on verso of blank leaf following last printed leaf.
Schimmel Collection copy has on front pastedown armorial bookplate of Harvard College Library with duplicate stamp at foot and ms. inscription ("Bought by W.N. Morse from Harvard Duplicate Library about 1930") in ink and pencil at head; faded blue ink stamp of the same institution (dated August 1902) overstamped with duplicate stamp on verso of title leaf.
Schimmel Collection copy: free endpapers detached; leaves closely cropped at head margin with loss of many page numbers and occasional damage to first line of text and loss of text at head of leaf A4v.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Harvard College Library (bookplate) (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Morse, W. N. (former owner) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Hudson, Mary (former owner) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Lock, Mary Ann (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1690

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B1774
McDonald, H. Dryden, 122
NUC pre-1956, NB 0261300 (vol. 43, p. 603)
ESTC, R34404

Contributor:

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Knapton, James, -1738, bookseller.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

7184947