Pasquin
Subtitle: A Dramatic Satire on the Times: being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. a Comedy call'd The Election; and a Tragedy call'd The Life and Death of Common-Sense : As it is Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market
By: By Henry Fielding, Esq.
Publisher: Printed for J. Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields
Published: 1736
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Notes: 'Fielding was back in London in the beginning of 1736, when he took the little theatre in the Haymarket. He opened it with his 'Pasquin'; a Dramatick Satire on the Times', in which, in a series of scenes on the plan of the 'Rehearsal', he attacks the political corruption of Walpole's time' [DNB]

On recto of first preliminary leaf, following title-page, a printer's advertisement; on recto, a list of 'Dramatis Personae' precedes the main text; at end, on verso of F1, a bookseller's advertisement listing books: 'Sold by J. Osborne at the Golden Ballin Pater-Noster-Row'; F2 wanting (? blank).

On verso of F1 a bookseller's advertisement listing books: 'Sold by J. Osborne at the Golden Ball in Pater-Noster-Row'.

Title-page printed in red and black; caption and running title: 'Pasquin'; heading sometimes cropped in binding in Percy copy.

ESTC700F22.