The alchymist : a comedy / as altered from Ben Jonson ; distinguishing also the variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane ; regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins, prompter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.

Contributor:

Garrick, David, 1717-1779.

Bell, John, 1745-1831, bookseller.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Promptbooks.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Hervey, Frances (donor) (RBC copy)

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)

Physical Description:

92 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John Bell ..., MDCCLXXVII [1777]

Notes:

Published anonymously.

As altered by David Garrick.

At head of title: Bell's edition.

Advertisements on last four pages.

Signatures: A-H⁶

Engraved frontispiece (portrait).

Local Notes:

RBC copy with: The country wife / as written by Wycherley. London : Printed for John Bell, 1777.

RBC copy imperfect: title leaf wanting.

Forrest copy imperfect: final 4 pages wanting.

Forrest copy in: British theatre. London : Printed for John Bell ... and C. Etherington ..., 1776-1778. Vol. 17, no. 4.

Furness copy imperfect: wanting frontispiece port.

Furness copy bound with: Macklin, Charles. The man of the world. Dublin : [Publisher not identified], printed in the year, MDCCXCI [1791]

Furness copy bound in modern russet morocco with spine title in gilt lettering: Prompt books : Drury Lane Theatre.

Cited in:

Nicoll, A. History of Engl. drama, 1660-1900, v. III, p. 264

ESTC T21183

OCLC:

188760319