Title: Fortune's fool; a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden by Frederick Reynolds. Author of Speculation – Dramatist – Rage – How to grow rich – Notoriety, &c.
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [4], 74, [2], f. [1] (blank). Marbled boards. Engraved portrait of Frederick Reynolds, esq. tipped in.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The play by Frederick Reynolds, an acquaintance of the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland, features a mad-keen collector, Sir Bamber Blackletter, whose pursuit of spurious Chaucer and Shakespeare manuscripts is clearly topical. On pages [75]-[76]: Epilogue, written by M. P. Andrews, Esq. Spoken by Mrs. Mattocks. See also ESTC, T18516.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039122859707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>