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The way to keep him : a comedy in five acts : as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane / by Mr. Murphy.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3461.F6 A65 1763
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Mendenhall, John C. (donor) (Singer copy)
- Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 107 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for P. Vaillant, 1770.
- Notes:
- Based in part on De Moissy's "Nouvelle école des femmes". Originally three acts only, but later extended to five.
- Includes printed cast list for production at Drury Lane Theatre.
- Local Notes:
- Singer copy bound with Foote, Samuel. The Englishman in Paris. London, 1763.
- RBC 822C bound with: Holcroft, Thomas. Duplicity. London : Printed for G. Robinson, 1781. -- Kelly, Hugh. A word to the wise. London : Printed for the Author and Sold by J. Dodsley ..., J. and E. Dilly ..., G. Kearsly ..., and T. Cadell ..., 1770. -- Moore, Edward. The foundling. London : Printed for R. Francklin, 1748. -- Colman, George. The jealous wife. Oxford : Printed for T. Lowndes, T. Davies, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, F. Newbery, and Mess. Carnan and Newbery, London ; W. Jackson, in Oxford ; and A. Kincaid, and Company, in Edinburgh, [1767?]
- Cited in:
- ESTC T790.
- OCLC:
- 7093416
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