The Jew of Venice : a comedy, as it is acted at the theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for Bernard Lintot, and for B. Motte, at the Middle-Temple Gate, and sold by Henry Lintot ... and W. Feals,
1732.
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| Item Description: | "Prologue: The ghosts of Shakespeare and Dryden arise crown'd with lawrel. Written by Bevill Higgons, Esq.": pages [5-7] Adapted and altered from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice by George Granville, Baron Lansdowne. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy is bound with: The fall of Bob, or, The oracle of gin / by Timothy Scrubb. [London : Printed for, and sold by J. Purser, A. Dodd, E. Nutt, ..., 1736] -- The Jew of Venice / [George Granville Landsdowne]. [London : printed for Bernard Lintot, and for B. Motte, ..., 1732] -- The busie body / written by Mrs. Susanna Centlivre. [London : Printed for Henry Lintot, 1741] -- The London merchant : or, The history of George Barnwell / by Mr. Lillo. [London : Printed for John Gray, 1735]. Signatures: [G11-12], H-I¹², K⁶. Pages 174 and 214 misnumbered 175 and 14 respectively. "Peleus and Thetis. A masque, set to musick": pages 189-195 Detached from an untitled larger work which also included The she-gallants and Heroick love. Cf. NUC Pre-1956, v. 315, p. 519. |
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| Physical Description: | 9 unnumbered pages, pages 175 [that is, 174]-226, 2 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm |