The theatre, tragic & comic..
Martindale, B.,18th century,former owner.NLS
Edinburgh: : Printed & sold by J. Robertson.,
MDCCLXXVI.. [1776]
The 4 plays in each volume have separate title pages, pagination and register. Each has an engraved frontispiece.
The individual plays bear the imprint date 1774.
The titlepage in each volume is engraved; each volume also has an additional letterpress title page, the first seven entitled 'The comic theatre' and the last seven 'The tragic theatre'.
Vol. 1. The beaux stratagem; Every man in his humour; The old bachelor; The suspicious husband -- Vol. 2. The conscious lovers; Rule a wife, and have a wife; The recruiting officer; The careless husband -- Vol. 3. The beggars opera; The busy body; The twin rivals; Love for love -- Vol. 4. She wou'd, and she wou'd not; The man of mode; The gentle shepherd; The funeral -- Vol. 5. The provok'd husband or, a journey to London; The double dealer; The constant couple or, a trip to the jubilee; The miser -- Vol. 6. Love makes a man or, the fop's fortune; The rehearsal; A bold stroke for a wife; The alchemist -- Vol. 7. The wonder, a woman keeps a secret; The plain dealer; The way of the world; The provok'd wife -- Vol. 8. The mourning bride; The siege of Damascus; Theodisius or, the force of love; Cato -- Vol. 9. All for love or, the world well lost; Oroonoko; The fair penitent; Oedipus. Vol. 10. Mahomet; Phaedra and Hippolitus; Tamerlane; Isabella or, the fatal marriage -- Vol. 11. Mustapha; Jane Shore; The revenge; The orphan -- Vol. 12. Barbarossa; Lady Jane Gray; Mariamne; Zara; Vol. 13. Tancred and Sigismunda; Venice preserv'd; The distress'd mother; The brothers -- Vol. 14. The London merchant or, The history of George Barnwell; The royal convert; The spanish friar; Douglas.
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Provenance: Each volume bears the book stamp and/or inscription B. Martindale on front pastedown and front free endpaper respectively.