The malcontent

Marston, John, 1575?-1634, Webster, John, 1580?-1625?, author of introduction, etc, Simmes, Valentine, active 1585-1622, printer, Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller, Tuckett, Charles, binder, Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner, S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm), auctioneer · 1604 · At London : Printed by V[alentine]. S[immes]. for William Aspley, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard · 1 picture

The Malcontent is a 1604 English play by John Marston, printed in London by Valentine Simmes for the bookseller William Aspley and sold from his Paul's Churchyard shop, for a reading public. The picture is a large ornamental initial letter with a dense interlace of scrolls, leaf forms and a small figure medallion, followed by a block of body text in a serif face. A designer could take from it the structure of a historic decorative capital set beside justified text, with the ornament framing the first word.

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