How to grow rich: a comedy...
London.
Printed for T. N. Longman, 1793.
Second edition.
8vo.
[4], 70pp, [2]. ESTC T112295.
[Bound with:] [BURGOYNE, John]. The heiress. A comedy in five acts... London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1786. Third edition. [2], 112pp. Without half-title. Initial two leaves shaved, without loss of text. ESTC T36081.
[And:] [GUILBERT DE PIXÉRÉCOURT, René Charles]. The wife with two husbands: a tragi-comedy, in three acts. Translated from the french by miss gunning... London. Printed [by Bye & Law] for H. D. Symonds, 1803. First edition in English. vii, [1], 104pp. Small hole to terminal leaf, with slight loss to text.
[And:] CHERRY, A[ndrew]. The soldier's daughter: A Comedy, in five acts... London. Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. Fourth edition. [8], 84pp, [3]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Marginal loss to head of leaf M1.
[And:] MORTON, Thomas. Town and country. A comedy. In five acts... London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme...By C. Stower, 1807. First edition. [4], 94pp, [2].
[And:] HOOK, Theodore Edward. The fortress; a melo-drama, in three acts, from the french... London. Printed for Samuel Tipper...By T. Gillet, 1807. First edition. 68pp. Numerous naive marginal paper repairs.
[And:] KENNEY, James. False alarms; or, my cousin, a comic opera... London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme...By C. Stower, 1807. First edition. [2], 86pp.
8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, lower joint starting, slight wear to head of spine, small worm-hole to foot. Scattered spotting.
[Bound with:] [BURGOYNE, John]. The heiress. A comedy in five acts... London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1786. Third edition. [2], 112pp. Without half-title. Initial two leaves shaved, without loss of text. ESTC T36081.
[And:] [GUILBERT DE PIXÉRÉCOURT, René Charles]. The wife with two husbands: a tragi-comedy, in three acts. Translated from the french by miss gunning... London. Printed [by Bye & Law] for H. D. Symonds, 1803. First edition in English. vii, [1], 104pp. Small hole to terminal leaf, with slight loss to text.
[And:] CHERRY, A[ndrew]. The soldier's daughter: A Comedy, in five acts... London. Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804. Fourth edition. [8], 84pp, [3]. With a half-title and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Marginal loss to head of leaf M1.
[And:] MORTON, Thomas. Town and country. A comedy. In five acts... London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme...By C. Stower, 1807. First edition. [4], 94pp, [2].
[And:] HOOK, Theodore Edward. The fortress; a melo-drama, in three acts, from the french... London. Printed for Samuel Tipper...By T. Gillet, 1807. First edition. 68pp. Numerous naive marginal paper repairs.
[And:] KENNEY, James. False alarms; or, my cousin, a comic opera... London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme...By C. Stower, 1807. First edition. [2], 86pp.
8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed, lower joint starting, slight wear to head of spine, small worm-hole to foot. Scattered spotting.
A coherent sammelband of seven plays representing the pinnacle of Regency fashion for tragicomedy and melodrama, including notorious hoaxer Theodore Edward Hook's (1788-1841) translation of French playwright and bibliophile Guilbert de Pixerécourt's (1773-1844) La forteresse du Danube (1805); James Kenney's (1780-1849) immensely popular three-act comic opera False Alarms (1807); and the first edition of Thomas Morton's (bap. 1764, d. 1838) comedy Town and country (1807), initially staged to great acclaim with John Kemble and Charles Kemble in the leading roles, and later becoming a staple of the nineteenth-century stage.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 34856
