The triumph of peace. A masque, presented by the foure honourable houses, or Innes of Court. Before the King and Queenes Majesties, in the Banquetting-house at White Hall, February the third, 1633. Invented and written, by James Shirley, Gent.

People / Organizations

• James Shirley (Author)

Imprint

London: Printed by Iohn Norton, for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, neere Furnivals-Inne-gate, in Holborne, 1633 [i.e. 1634]

Publication year

1634-1634

ESTC No.

S117229

Grub Street ID

136903

Description

[4], 8, 24 p. ; 4⁰

Note

Partly in verse.

The years are given according to Lady Day dating.

Variant: title page has "Shirley, of Grayes Inne, Gent.".

In this edition B4a last line has "vnder Water". Quire a is mostly in the same setting as the other editions; other quires display a variety of partial resettings, impositions, &c. Most of these appear to be later than those found in copies with "vnderwater" or "vnder water" in B4a last line.

Uncontrolled note

An exceptionally difficult item to classify bibliographically; see "The Library", ser. 5, vol. 1 (Sept. 1946), p. 113-26. There are, broadly speaking, three settings of the work. The fingerprints provided in STC 22458.5-22459b, based on this article, fail to give a meaningful sorting by these settings, and further subdivision (by imposition, &c.) is frustrated by the mixture of states exhibited by each forme from copy to copy