A Bold Stroke for a Wife, A Comedy, Written By Mrs. Centlivre. Marked with the Variations in the Manager's Books, At The Theatres-Royal.

Type
Book
Category
Main Collection pre-1900  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1777 
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Plays 
Description
(CON) Volume of 6 bound plays, also includes: I. The double dealer. A comedy. By Mr. Congreve. marked with the variations in the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. London: printed for T. Davies; T. Lowndes; T. Caslon; W. Nicoll; and S. Bladon. MDCCLXXVII. II. Love for Love. A comedy. Written by Mr. Congreve. Marked with the variations in the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. London: printed for W. Lowndes; J. Nicholls; W. Nicoll; S. Bladon and J. Barker. MDCCLXXXVIII. III. Sir Harry Wildair. Being the sequel of the trip to the Jubilee. A comedy, as written by Mr. Farquhar. Distinguishing also the variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins, prompter. London: printed for John Bell, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand. MDCCLXXVII. IV. The Wonder! A woman keeps a secret. A comedy written by Mrs. Centlivre. marked with the variations of the manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: printed for W. Lowndes, S. Bladon, and W. Nicoll, MDCCLXXXVII. V. The busy body. A comedy by Mrs. Centlivre. As performed at the Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers, by Mr. hopkins, prompter. Edinburg: at the Apollo Press, by the Martins, for Bell, London, 1783||(REF) ESTC: no copies of this edition but many copies of other editions||(PRV) Accession no. 6117: from Jolliffe's library, without his bookplate, but with his ink signature dated 1807 on a front endpaper, and he has supplied a table of contents on the front endpaper.||(BIN) Accession no. 6117: bound in contemporary full sheep, spine gilt-ruled and lettered, red label.||(CIP) 'Bold stroke' is not dated and the publication dates of the other volumes are as bound: 1777, 1788, 1778, 1787, 1783||(CON) The details of the frontispieces: for 'Bold stroke' Mr. Parsons in the character of Periwinkle; 'Double dealer' Mr. Palmer and Mrs. Gardiner in the characters of Careless and Lady Plyant; and 'The wonder!' Mr. Garrick as Don Felix||(TIT) Spine labelled 'Comedies' 
Biblio Notes
1 v. ; 12mo.  
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