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The Ancient British Drama : In Three Volumes.
LIBRA - Rare PR1263 .A57 1810 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600.
- English drama.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 24 cm
- Distribution:
- Edinburgh : Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.,
- Place of Publication:
- London : William Miller, Albemarle Street, 1810.
- Notes:
- Title vignettes.
- "Intended to form, with The British drama, and Shakspeare, a complete and uniform collection, in ten volumes, of the best English plays ... The ground-work of the present collection is the excellent selection known by the name of Dodsley's Old plays."--Preface.
- Has been ascribed to Sir Walter Scott. cf. Lowndes. The bibliographer's manual: Margaret Ball. Sir Walter Scott as a critic of literature, pages 52, 151-152.
- Local Notes:
- PR1263.A57 1810 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2019 has brown leather boards with gilt ruled border; spine printed in gilt on different colored labels; marbled edges and blue ribbon bookmark. Copy has volume 1 only.
- OCLC:
- 1264885
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