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Comus : a mask / by John Milton ; as performed at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden ; regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers, by Mr. Wild, prompter.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3557.A2 C65 1782
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Cast lists -- England -- 18th century.
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 37 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- Bell's characteristical edition.
- Fingerprint:
- e.r. f.ts ,"d, "O"I (3) 1782 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburg : At the Apollo Press, by The Martins, for Bell, London, 1782.
- Notes:
- "An adaptation by George Colman [the elder]; in the main an abridgment of that by John Dalton."--ESTC.
- Signatures: A-C⁶ D².
- The last leaf is blank.
- Engraved plate (frontispiece) signed: J. Roberts del. Publish'd for Bells British Theatre Feb. 26th. 1777. Thornthwaite sculpt.
- Publisher's monogram ("JB") above imprint on title leaf.
- "Dramatis Personae": P. [4].
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Penn Libraries copy: boards wanting; spine damaged; plate and first gathering detached.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T136369
- OCLC:
- 63957076
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