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Tom Jones, a comic opera : as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reed, Joseph, 1723-1787
Corporate Authors: Covent Garden Theatre, Francis Longe Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Authors: Arnold, Samuel, 1740-1802, Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for Becket and De Hondt, in the Strand, and Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal Exchange, MDCCLXIX [1769]
Edition:The second edition.
Series:[Longe, F. Collection of plays ; v. 25, no. 5]
Subjects:
Foundlings > Drama.
Identity (Psychology) > Drama.
Operas > Librettos > Early works to 1800.
Foundlings.
Identity (Psychology)
Operas > Librettos.
Comedy plays.
Drama.
Early works.
Description
Item Description:Based on Fielding's novel.
Without the music (by Arnold, Arne and others).
Half title page, with price: One shilling and six pence.
Vignette on title page; head-piece.
LC copy is the fifth title in volume with binder's title Comedies, number 25.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:8 unnumbered pages, 59 pages, 1 page ; 31 cm (octavo)
A digital reproduction of the copy of this title found at the British Library is available from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Place of Publication:England -- London.