The tragedy of tragedies
Subtitle: or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great; with the annotations of H. Scriblerus Secundus
By: by Henry Fielding; ed. by James T. Hillhouse
Contributors: Hillhouse, James Theodore
Publisher: Yale university press; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1918
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Other titles: Tom Thumb.
Work titles: Tom Thumb
Notes: Includes text of "Tom Thumb" (p. [41]-73) based on the first (1730) and second editions. This was enlarged in 1731 into "The tragedy of tragedies." "The text of The tragedy of tragedies [p. 75-144] is a literal reprint of the edition of 1731 and has been collated with a later impression of 1731, and with the third, fourth and fifth editions."--Pref.

Appendices: A. The battle of the poets [a new act interpolated, 1730, in "Tom Thumb," published separately and anonymously but attributed to Fielding]--B. Adaptations.

Bibliography: p. [200]-216.