She stoops to conquer: or, The mistakes of a night. : A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. / Written by Doctor Goldsmith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.

Contributor:

Turner, Evan H., Donor.

Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.

Newbery, Francis, -1780, Bookseller.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[8], 106, [2]p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London: : Printed for F. Newbery, in St. Paul's Church-Yard., MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

Notes:

First edition, with pagination corrected.

Todd records numerous states of the first edition and has distinguished two impressions.

In Todd's impression 2; p.8 is not numbered and the running title reads: 'She stoops to conquer:' another issue exists with p.8 numbered and the running title reading: 'She stoops to conquer: or'.

The preliminary leaves have been reset in part and include a half-title.

The epilogue by J. Craddock is printed after p.106 (sig. P2).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).

Athenaeum copy wanting half title; copy reflects variations found within both the 1st and 2nd impression of title with; clipped descriptions from booksellers' catalogs and a newspaper clipping relating to a performance of the work; bound in sprinkled calf in Riviere binding.

Cited in:

Roscoe, A197 (3)

William B. Todd, 'The first editions of The good natur'd man and She stoops to conquer'. Studies in Bibliography, 11(1958), 132-42.