The deserving favorite. : A tragi-comedy. As it was presented before the King and Queenes Majesties at White-Hall, and very often at the private house in Black-Friers, with great applause. By his late Maiesties Servants. Written by Lodowick Carlell, Esq.

London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Armes in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1659.

[6], 97, [1] p. ; (8vo)

Plot derived from: Solórzano, Alonso del Castillo. La Duquesa de Mantua.

"The printer's epigrammaticall epistle to the understanding reader," is signed "I.R.", i.e. John Rhodes, the original publisher, and is reprinted from the ed. of 1629.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), C578
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, II, 423(b)
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R7547

Great Britain -- England -- London.

C578

Bound in tan calf with gold tooling and inner borders