The distrest mother : A tragedy /
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| Language: | English |
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London:
Printed for Jacob Tonson in the Strand,
MDCCXXXV. [1735]
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| Item Description: | Signatures: A-C¹², D⁶ (A₁, frontispiece). Title in red and black; title vignette; head- and tail-pieces, initials. Translated by Philips, with slight alterations, from the Andromaque of Racine. 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/Morrison Collection copy is bound with: Cato : a tragedy / by Mr. Addison. [London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1739] -- The distrest mother : a tragedy / by Mr. Philips. [London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735] -- The fair penitent : a tragedy / written by Nicholas Rowe, Esq. [London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735] -- The funeral : or, Grief a-la-mode A comedy / written by Sir Richard Steele. [London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735] -- The drummer : or, The haunted-house. A comedy / by Mr. Addison. [London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735]. Prologue by Steele; epilogue, "written by Mr. Budgell", may have been written by Addison. Frontispiece by Du Guernier. |
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| Physical Description: | 5 preliminary leaves, 72 pages : frontispiece ; 17 cm |