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Venice preserved, or, A plot discovered : a tragedy / by Thomas Otway ; adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden ; regulated from the prompt-book by permission of the managers.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3612 .V4 1791
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797--Drama.
- Venice (Italy).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 122 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Venice preserved
- Plot discovered
- Fingerprint:
- e:o. d.d, ."n, ThBu (7) 1791 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British-Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, MDCCXCI [1791]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-K⁶ L².
- Plates: "Mrs. Esten as Belvidera" (engraved by J. Thornthwaite after Samuel de Wilde, with imprint: London. Printed for J. Bell, British Library, Strand, March 9, 1791) and "Venice Preserved" (engraved by Charles Hall after John Graham, with imprint: Printed for J. Bell, British Library Strand, London, March 1, 1791).
- Woodcut head- and tail-piece.
- "'The lines distinguished by inverted commas, are omitted in the representation.'"
- "Also issued as: 'Bell's British theatre', vol. 15, London, 1797."--ESTC.
- Local Notes:
- Milton Collection copy bound with: Rowe, Nicholas. The fair penitent. London : Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, MDCCXCI [1791] -- Beaumont, Francis. Rule a wife and have a wife. London : Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British-Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, MDCCXCI [1791] -- Milton, John. Comus. London : Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British-Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, MDCCXCI [1791].
- Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.
- Milton Collection copy: left board and front free endpaper detached.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T50681
- OCLC:
- 521454534
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