A Key to the Drama; or, Memoirs, intrigues, and atchievements (sic), of personages, who have been chosen by the most celebrated Poets, as the fittest Characters for Theatrical Representations [etc.]
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Main Collection pre-1900
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Publication Year
1768
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Abstract
A Key to the Drama; or, Memoirs, intrigues, and atchievements (sic), of personages, who have been chosen by the most celebrated Poets, as the fittest Characters for Theatrical Representations. . . Containing the Life, Character, and secret History Of Macbeth. By A Gentleman, No professed Author, but a Lover of History, and of the Theatre.
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(GEN) First published in London separately in 1708, as The Secret History of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Taken from a Very Ancient Original Manuscript. No further volumes issued. C3 is mislabelled B3, text complete. With numerous ink notations throughout, in a contemporary hand, in the manner of an author editing and correcting her own work.||(CON) A5, B-X6, Contents. A1r Title, verso blank; A2r-A3v Dedication; A4r-A5r Preface, A5v blank; B1r-X5r Text, X5v blank; X6 blank.||(REF) Block, p. 128, as anonymous; Nine copies in ESTC;||(PRV) From the Library of John Charles Hardy, with his bookplate, and a later bookplate with the name Percivall Beaumont.||(BIN) Contemporary red morocco, extra gilt, green label.
Biblio Notes
1v. 12mo.
Number of Copies
1