Love in the city
Subtitle: a comic opera as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden
By: the words written, and the music compiled by the author of Love in a village
Contributors: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814; Dibdin, E. Rimbault (Edward Rimbault), 1853-1941, compiler
Publisher: Printed for W. Griffin, in Catharine-Street, in the Strand
Published: 1767
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: English drama; Early works to 1800; Operas; Librettos
Notes: 3 p. of advertisements at end.

By Isaac Bickerstaff. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.).

First ed.

Better known in an altered version as The romp.

Without the music (by Dibdin and others).

Page 56 sometimes misnumberded 53.

Rare Book copy (PR4549.D3 S5 1765g v.1): Bound with other plays by, and related ephemera on, Charles Dibdin, in a volume with hand-written t.p. "The writings for the theater of Charles Dibdin, including librettos which he set to music and pieces in which he appeared. Collected by Edw Rimbault Dibdin. Vol. 1."

Rare Book copy (Pamphlet vol. 820.12 Z9314): No. 3 in a bound volume of titles. [4] preliminary pages wanting; edition determined by advertisement leaf.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T38655