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Brutus of Alba: or, The enchanted lovers. A tragedy. Acted at the Duke's Theatre. / Written by N. Tate. Licensed July 15. 1678. Roger L'Estrange.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC65 T1875 678b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lord, Frank (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (4to.)
- Other Title:
- Enchanted lovers.
- Fingerprint:
- s.a- s.ce s,d; HoBr (3) 1678 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by E.F. for Jacob Tonson, at the sign of the Judge's Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-street, 1678.
- Notes:
- The plan of the play is taken from the fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid.
- The last leaf bears an epilogue on recto and advertisement on verso. "The epilogue leaf was apparently an afterthought and does not occur in most copies"--Cf. Pforzheimer catalogue.
- Dedication leaf is a cancel; line 1 ends: 1) "Right Honourable". Variant: dedication leaf is the cancellandum; line 1 ends "Charles Earl"
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has list of plays and authors written on preliminary leaf in ms.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Frank Lord.
- Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: Dedication leaf wanting.
- Culture Class Collection copy closely cropped at head.
- Cited in:
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), T177
- Woodward & McManaway, 1194
- Pforzheimer, 1002
- ESTC, R16
- OCLC:
- 228732259
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