Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁴ B-K⁴

An adaptation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, greatly altered

"Books lately printed" (1 p.) at end

Another issue has Swall's name first in imprint (Wing D2389; ESTC R4152)

"Copies are frequently found with a leaf, containing lines To Mr. Dryden on his Play, Called, Truth Found Too Late signed R. Duke. , inserted usually before the advertisement but sometimes among the preliminaries. Probably some copies were issued before that leaf was prepared."--Pforzheimer catalogue entry for the other issue

ESTC

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy 1 is the fifth of seven works bound together in a volume titled: Dryden's plays, vol. 3. This volume contains [1]: The state of innocence, and fall of man: an opera written in heroick verse -- [2]: Aurenge-zebe: a tragedy -- [3]: All for love, or, The world well lost: a tragedy -- [4]: Oedipus: a tragedy -- [5]: Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth found too late: a tragedy -- [6]: The keeper, or, Mr. Limberham: a comedy -- [7]: The Spanish fryar, or, The double discovery

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy 2 presents the typographical peculiarities ascribed to a variant of this edition by ESTC (Abel Swall appears before Jacob Tonson on the title page). This copy has become detached from its covers and is currently housed in a preservation folder

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