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Merope : a tragedy : acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants / by Aaron Hill, Esq.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3517.H7 S4 1752
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voltaire, 1694-1778.
- Standardized Title:
- Mérope. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merope, wife of Cresphontes--Drama.
- Merope, wife of Cresphontes.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Cast lists -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor)
- Rochfort, D. (autograph)
- Rochfort, Thomas (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- s.t. s,w: s;nd FrCl (3) 1762 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Printed for G. and A. Ewing, G. Faulkner, J. Exshaw, and T. Dyton, booksellers, MDCCLXII [1762]
- Notes:
- "Translated and adapted from the play by Voltaire."--ESTC.
- Signatures: A-F⁶.
- Woodcut head-pieces.
- Typographical ornaments.
- Cast list on verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy bound with: Hughes, John. The siege of Damascus. Dublin : Printed by Augustus Long, printer and bookseller, under Welsh's Coffee-house in Essex-street, [between 1748 and 1764].
- 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 of first work in vol. (1 struck through, 1 of "D. Rochfort"); ms. contents list on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N4011
- OCLC:
- 6002075
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