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A select collection of old plays.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Forrest Collection PR1263 .D6 1825 v.1-12
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection PR1263 .D6 1825 v.1-4, 6-12
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor)(Forrest copy)
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate) (Furness copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 volumes ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- A new edition : with additional notes and corrections, by the late Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, and the editor.
- Place of Publication:
- London : S. Prowett, 1825-27.
- Notes:
- 3d edition, ed. by John Payne Collier.
- Four plays included in earlier editions--Ford's 'Tis a pity she's a whore, and Shirley's Bird in a cage, Gamester, and Andromana--are omitted, and replaced by Lodge's Wounds of civil war, Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Nash's Summer's last will and testament, and Peele's Edward I. "Two very early and rare dramatic specimens," The Worlde and the Chylde, and The tragicall comedie of Apius and Virginia, have also been added.
- OCLC:
- 187111975
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