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Love in a village : a comic opera, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812, Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778 (Composer)
Corporate Author: Covent Garden Theatre
Other Authors: Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807 (Illustrator), Johnson, Charles, 1679-1748, Wycherley, William, 1640-1716, Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for J. Newbery ; R. Baldwin ; T. Caslon ; W. Griffin ; W. Nicoll ; T, Lownds ; and Becket and DeHondt, MDCCLXVII. [1767]
Edition:A New edition.
Subjects:
Operas > Librettos > Early works to 1800.
Librettos > England > 18th century.
Description
Item Description:Published anonymously. Libretto by Isaac Bickerstaffe. Without the music (partly compiled, partly composed by Arne) Cf. Sonneck. Cat. of opera librettos.
Drawn largely from Charles Johnson's Village opera, Wycherley's Gentleman dancing master, and Marivaux's Jeu de l'amour et du hasard.
Includes untitled airs without music.
Frontispiece inscribed: Isaac Taylor del. et sculpt.
"A table of the songs, with the names of the several composers ... ": [2] pages, at end.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:ii, [7]-78 pages, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:England -- London.