Comus : a masque : as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden / altered from Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Contributor:

Dalton, John, 1709-1763.

Wenman, Joseph, -1790, publisher.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12, 6 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

d,in e.b; r;e, I.e. (C) 1777 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Wenman ... and sold by all other booksellers in town and country, MDCCLXXVII [1777]

Contents:

Comus

The toy-shop / by Robert Dodsley.

Notes:

Adaptation of Comus by John Dalton. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A⁴(A4+chi1) B⁴.

Without music.

Engraved plate ("Miss Catley in the character of Euphrosyne") with imprint: Published by I. Wenman 1st May 1777.

Title vignette, head- and tail-pieces.

Text printed in double columns.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Milton Collection copy disbound from a nonce volume.

Milton Collection copy: leaves closely cropped at head margin with occasional damage to running title.

Cited in:

ESTC T31076

Contains:

Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764. Toy-shop.

OCLC:

253705707