BEIN Osborn pb63 and Osborn pb65: W.W. Greg's copies, with his ms. annotations.

BEIN Osborn pb65: Imperfect: wanting all leaves between p.l. 60 and p. 301, and all after p. 306; prelim. leaf 45 (**7) wanting and supplied in ms. Bookplate of Edward Cheney. Autograph of George Smyth.

BEIN Osborn pb94: Signatures: [a]⁸(a7 cancellans and cancellandum) b⁸(b2 fold., cancellans?) *¹⁸(*11 cancellans and cancellandum) [para.]⁴ **⁸ ****³ ***⁸ ****⁴⁻⁶ a-e⁸f⁴(f4 blank) g-k⁸ A-T⁸ U⁴ (M5 in two settings; U1-U3 cancellans and cancellandum, U blank and cancelled? wanting)U⁸X⁴(X3-X4 stubs only).

BEIN Osborn pb94: Signature **7, the original leaf of poems by H. Davison, and R. Watkins, is present in this copy together with the cancellans; X3-X4, and index, is cancelled in this, as well as in probably all copies.

BEIN Osborn pb63: Sig. *13-*16 [para]⁴ **⁸ are misbound between *4 and *5; sig. **7 is a cancel; sig. X3-X4 (an index) is wanting.

BEIN Osborn pb94 and Ih C249 651c: Variants with the duplicate set of p. 301-306 (sig.U1-U3); the first set consists of the 1st and 2d state of the "Queens Return" and "Death of ... Grenvill" poems. The 2d set consists of new poems: "On the Death of ... Mrs. Ashford ...", "On the Death of ... Lord Bayning". The poem on verso of the 7th preliminary leaf is in both settings, once signed T.P. Baronet and the other time the initials replaced by crests.

BEIN Ih C249 651b copy 1: Variant copy in which: sig. *15-*18 misbound between *4 and *5; quires *** and **** are bound in signature sequence, disregarding the directions to the binder; instructions cut away and provided in ms. by F. Madan.

BEIN Ih C249 651b copy 1: Imperfect: Closely trimmed; some marginal matter bled, including that of title and the note to Stapyton's poem.

BEIN Ih C249 651b copy 2: Imperfect: Some marginal matter bled, including the note to Stapylton's poem.

BEIN Ih C249 651c: Imperfect: Closely trimmed; some marginal matter bled, including that of title and the note to Stapylton's poem (sig. b2 recto 1st count); frontispiece portrait wanting.

As directed in the note to the binder at foot of sig.****1 recto, quire *** has been bound in between ****3 and ****4.

First edition.

With individual title-pages to the separate works; The Royall Slave is the 3d ed.

Pages 91, 114 (1st count) misnumbered 19, 104 respectively; p. 126, 249, 293, 295 (2d count) misnumbered 129, 259, 593, 592 respectively; except Osborn pb94 in which p. 295 is numbered correctly.

Without Lawes's music.

Signatures: [a]-b⁸ *¹⁸ [para.]⁴ **⁸ ****³ ***⁸ ****⁴⁻⁶ a-e⁸ f⁴ (f4 blank) g-k⁸ A-T⁸ U³ U⁸ X⁴.

Commendatory poem by Izaak Walton: 58th p.l.

References: Wing (2d ed.) C-709; Cartwright. The plays and poems, ed. by G.B. Evans, p. 64-72.