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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: companion to the play-house: or, An historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary, for the more readily turning to any particular author, or performance
  title info:
    title: Historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland
  title info:
    title: Play-house dictionary
  name:
    name part: Baker, David Erskine
    name part: 1730-1767
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Henderson, Christopher
    role:
      role term: bookseller.
  name:
    name part: Davies, Thomas
    name part: 1713-1785
    role:
      role term: bookseller.
  name:
    name part: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt
    role:
      role term: bookseller.
  name:
    name part: Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
  type of resource: text
  genre: encyclopedia
  genre: biography
  genre: bibliographies.
  genre: Bio-bibliography
  genre: Early works
  genre: Bibliographies.
  genre: Calf bindings (Binding)-Great Britain.
  genre: Price (Provenance).
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1764
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo in 6s)
  table of contents: Vol. I. Contains, a critical and historical account of every tragedy, comedy, farce, &c. in the English language. The respective merits of each piece ; and of the actors who performed the principal characters, are particularly examined and pointed out -- Vol. II. Contains, the lives and productions of every dramatic writer for the English or Irish theatres, including not only all memoirs that have been formerly written, but also a great number of new lives and curious anecdotes never before communicated to the public. Also the lives of our most celebrated actors, who were likewise authors of any theatrical composition from Shakespeare and Johnson, down to the present times.
  note: Published anonymously.
  note: A second edition (1782) and a third (1812) were issued under title: Biographia dramatica.
  note: Title-page quotes contents: "Vol. I [read vol. II] contains, a critical and historical account of every tragedy, comedy, farce, &c., in the English language. The respective merrits of each piece; and of the actors who performed the principal characters ... Vol. II. [read vol. I] contains, the lives and productions of every dramatic writer for the English or Irish theatres ... also the lives of our most celebrated actors."
  note: Head- and tail-pieces, historiated initials.
  note: Errata, vol. 1, leaf Ee5.
  note: The Cushing Library/Rare Books Collection copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
  note: English Short Title Catalog, T77488
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
    geographic code: e-ie---
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    genre: Bio-bibliography
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Dramatists, English
    genre: Bio-bibliography
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: England
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Ireland
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Oratorio
    genre: Bibliography
    genre: Early
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Théâtre--Grande-Bretagne--Bio-bibliographie
  subject:
    topic: Théâtre anglais
    topic: Biobibliographie
  subject:
    topic: Théâtre anglais
    genre: Biobibliographie
    genre: Ouvrages avant 1800
  subject:
    topic: Théâtre
    geographic: Angleterre
    genre: Ouvrages avant 1800
  subject:
    topic: Théâtre
    geographic: Irlande
    genre: Ouvrages avant 1800
  subject:
    topic: English drama
  subject:
    topic: Theater
  subject:
    geographic: England
  subject:
    geographic: Ireland
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: Great Britain
      state: England
      city: London
  classification: Z2014.D7 B35 1764
  classification: 822.09 B16, 1764
  classification: 822.03 B167
  classification: cci1icc
  classification: coll3
  related item:
    note: English Short Title Catalog, T77488
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Companion to the play-house
    name:
      name part: Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767.
    origin info:
      publisher: London, T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt [etc.] 1764
    identifier: (OCoLC)656648645
  identifier: 04014290
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 770609
    record change date: 20250915152945.6
    record identifier: in00005663404
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng