The contrast
Subtitle: a comedy
By: by Royal Tyler, with an introduction by Thomas J. McKee
Series: Publications of the Dunlap society -- no. 1
Publisher: The Dunlap society
Published: 1887
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Fashion; Drama; History; Social life and customs; Avarice; Social values
Notes: "One of an edition of one hundred and seventy-five copies printed from type for the Dunlap society in the month of December, 1886."

Reprint of original edition including t.-p.: "The contrast, a comedy; in five acts: written by a citizen of the United States; performed with applause at the theatres in New York, Philadelphia, and Maryland; and published (under an assignment of the copy-right) by Thomas Wignell ... Philadelphia, Pritchard & Hall, 1790."

Prefixed: "The Dunlap society" (prospectus, 7 p.)

"The first American play ever performed by a company of professional actors."--Introd.

Bibliography: p. xi-xii.

Original printed tan wrappers preserved; bound in half morocco.