The siege of Damascus : a tragedy : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley / written by John Hughes, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, John, 1677-1720.

Contributor:

Long, Augustus, -1774, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Damascus (Syria)--Drama.

Damascus (Syria).

Genre:

Cast lists -- Ireland -- Dublin -- 18th century.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor)

Rochfort, D. (autograph)

Rochfort, Thomas (bookplate)

Physical Description:

70 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

s,ur nsd; n.e, ThHa (3) 1748 (Q)

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by Augustus Long, printer and bookseller, under Welsh's Coffee-house in Essex-street, [between 1748 and 1764]

Notes:

Augustus Long occupied premises at this address 1748-1764. Cf. M. Pollard, A dictionary of members of the Dublin book trade, 1550-1800, p. 369.

Signatures: A-F⁶.

Woodcut head-piece.

Typographical ornaments.

Cast list on leaf A5v.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Voltaire. Merope. Dublin : Printed for G. and A. Ewing, G. Faulkner, J. Exshaw, and T. Dyton, booksellers, MDCCLXII [1762] -- Morgan, McNamara. Philoclea. Dublin : Printed by G. Faulkner ..., MDCCLIV [1754] -- Young, Edward. Busiris, King of Egypt. Dublin : Printed for W. Smith, P. Wilson, and J. Exshaw ..., MDCCLXI [1761] -- Dodsley, Robert. Cleone. Dublin : Printed by George Faulkner ..., MDCCLIX [1759].

Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate of Thomas Rochfort on front pastedown and bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown; 2 autographs on title leaf (1 struck through, 1 of "D. Rochfort"); ms. contents list on front free endpaper; early ms. annotation on leaf A3v.

OCLC:

640366242