John a Kent and John a Cumber; A comedy, by Anthony Munday. Printed from the original manuscript, the property of E. M. L. Mostyn, Esq., M.P. with other tracts by the same author. The introduction and notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq.

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8vo. pp. [2], lxxii, 138. Signatures: [a]8 b-d8 e4 B-I8 K5. Original cloth. Includes specimen of handwriting of Anthony Munday as frontispiece illustration. Content: Introduction; The book of John a Kent and John a Cumber; A View of sundry Examples; Report of the execution of traitors. 1582; An advertisement and defence against Campion. 1581. Unpublished autograph play of 1590-1596 by the prolific Elizabethan dramatist, translator, versifier, and pamphleteer Anthony Munday edited by John Payne Collier, after Sir Frederic Madden pointed him to the manuscript which was residing among the papers belonging to Edward Mostyn. Collier added three hitherto-unreprinted texts to John a Kent and provided a new ‘Memoir’ and ‘List of Anthony Munday’s Works’ extending to forty-five pages, in addition to a general introduction and critical notes. Collier’s editorial work was showing some signs of carelessness. A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 566-567; II, A82. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117159" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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John a Kent and John a Cumber; A comedy, by Anthony Munday. Printed from the original manuscript, the property of E. M. L. Mostyn, Esq., M.P. with other tracts by the same author. The introduction and notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq.
Anthony Munday, John P. (John Payne) (ed.) Collier | Printed for the Shakespeare Society F. Shoberl, Jun. Printer to H. R. H. Prince Albert | 1851