The Belle's Stratagem: A Comedy, of Five Acts; as it is now Performing At The Theatre In Smock-Alley. By Mrs. Cowley.
by Cowley (Hannah)
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- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Dublin: Printed by T. Bathe, 1781.. Disbound, remnants of binding clinging to the spine. 12mo. [(A - C) in 12's, D in 4; wanting D4). Lacking the final leaf, D4, which prints the end of the Epilogue poem. Chipping to edges of early and late leaves, some mss. notes on the final leaf, very good generally. One of two Dublin editions of 1781, preceding the London, Authorized, edition of 1782. The play became popular in 19th Century England, and was a favoritte of the actress Ellen Terry. Lacking the final leaf, sold with all faults.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56905
- Title
- The Belle's Stratagem: A Comedy, of Five Acts; as it is now Performing At The Theatre In Smock-Alley. By Mrs. Cowley.
- Author
- Cowley (Hannah)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dublin: Printed by T. Bathe, 1781.
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- Litold;
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....