The Man Of The World. A Comedy. By Charles Macklin. As Performed At The Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane And Covent-Garden.
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection pre-1900
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Publication Year
1793
Description
(GEN) Two plays in one volume. Usually termed "first edition", though both plays had appeared earlier in Dublin editions published "for the booksellers." Among the benefactors listed are the Prince of Wales, Sir Joseph Banks, Boswell, Burke, Charles Burney, Cumberland, Fox, Gisborne, Glover, Warren Hastings, Hayley, Mrs. Jordan, John Kemble, "Monk" Lewis, Sheridan, Mrs. Siddons, Strutt, Tooke, Wilkes and Tate Wilkinson.||(CON) [A]10, B-I4, K2, Contents. [A]1r Half-title, verso blank; Engraved portrait frontispiece; [A]2r Title, verso blank; [A]3r-[A]7r Subscribersí List, [A]7v blank; [A]8rv Advertisement From The Editor; [A]9r-[A]10r Dedication, [A]10v Dramatis PersonÊ; B1r-K2v Text, ìThe Man Of The World.î{A]2, B-E4, Contents. [A]1r Title, verso blank; [A]2r blank, [A]2v Dramatis PersonÊ; B1r-E4v Text, ìLove A La Mode.î||(REF) Twenty-five copies in ESTC;||(PRV) With two contemporary bookplates, one bearing the name ìSyston Park,î the other three initials (illegible.)||(BIN) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt-ruled and lettered, with triple green labels.
Biblio Notes
1v. 4to.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 4558 | Writers' Sequence MAC | 1 | RR1/OS | Yes |