The careless shepherdes : a tragi-comedy acted before the King & Queen, and at Salisbury-Court, with great applause

Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629, Rogers, Richard, bookseller, Ley, William, active 1638-1657, bookseller, Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner, Holgate, William, former owner, Riviere, Robert, 1808-1882, binder, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1656 · London : Printed for Richard Rogers and William Ley, and are to be sould at Pauls Chaine nere Doctors commons · 2 pictures

The careless shepherdes is a 1656 London tragi-comedy by Thomas Goffe, printed for the booksellers Richard Rogers and William Ley and sold at Paul's Chain near Doctors' Commons, with a later owner's armorial bookplate and a shield-shaped armorial stamp pasted in the front. The first picture is a bookplate showing a black bull's head crest above a chevron-like diagonal band and two bull's heads on a dotted shield, lettered William Holgate. The second is a faint, smudged impression of a crowned shield with diamond-shaped charges and a small animal, suggesting heraldic device work a designer could adapt for crest or monogram layouts.

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