A mad world, my masters : as it hath bin lately in action by the Children of Paules

Middleton, Thomas, -1627, Ballard, Henry, active 1597-1608, printer, Burre, Walter, bookseller, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner · 1608 · London : Printed by H[enry]. B[allard]. for Walter Burre, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Crane · 2 pictures

A Mad World, My Masters is a 1608 London play by Thomas Middleton, printed by Henry Ballard for the bookseller Walter Burre and sold at St Paul's Churchyard, written for the boys' company of St Paul's. The pictures are a printed ornamental initial with a decorative woodcut-style letter and a separate diamond-shaped ornament of interlaced scrolls and foliage, both in black on cream paper, useful to a designer for ornamental borders, letterform decoration and symmetrical scrollwork motifs.

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