The dramatic works of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery : to which is added a comedy, intitled As you find it, by the honourable Charles Boyle ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery, 1621-1679.

Contributor:

Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, bookseller.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Cork & Orrery, Earls of (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : portrait ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R. Dodsley ..., MDCCXXXIX [1739]

Contents:

(from t.p.) Vol.I. The black prince

Tryphon

Henry the Fifth

Mustapha

vol. II. Herod the Great

Altemira

Guzman, a comedy

As you find it, a comedy, by Charles, late Earl of Orrery.

Notes:

Vol. 1 has engraved portrait of Roger Boyle on frontispiece, and engr. head-piece.

Each work with half-title.

Woodcut initial on vol. 1.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

RBC copy imperfect: frontispiece portrait wanting.

Cited in:

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, I, 278

Contains:

Boyle, Charles, Earl of Orrery, 1674-1731. As you find it.

OCLC:

2852180