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A collection of plays and poems, by the late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg county, in the state of Virginia. Now first published together.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Munford, Robert, d. 1784.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Plays -- 1798.
- Poems -- 1798.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii,[1],14-168,187-206p. )
- Other Title:
- Collection of plays and poems,
- Place of Publication:
- Petersburg [Va.] : Printed by William Prentis, M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798]
- Notes:
- Preface signed by the author's son, William Munford.
- Error in paging: page numbers 169-186 omitted.
- Microopaque only contains "The candidates" and "The patriots".
- There are two variant settings of signatures C and N. In the first state, line 1 on C1r reads: ""... because I shall never"" and line 10 of sig. N1r reads: ""... they were in a private room," in the second state, line 1 of sig. C1r reads: ""... because I shall never pay"" and line 10 of sig N1r reads: ""... they were in a private room, shut"". (Cf. Edwin Wolf, ""Historical grist for the bibliographical mill."" Studies in bibliography 25 (1972): 30.)
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 34158
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 278
- Hill, F. P. Amer. plays, 193
- English Short Title Catalog, W37430.
- OCLC:
- 511259156
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