12mo. 54 leaves, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece by Lud. Du Guernier. The Prologue is followed by The Persons of the Play and a list of the Principal Comedians.
Ben [
for
Benjamin]
Jonson, 1573?-1637, English dramatist.
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JONSON,
Ben.
The Alchemist. A Comedy, First Acted in the Year 1610. By the King’s Majesty’s Servants. With the Allowance of the Master
of Revels. The Author Ben. Johnson . . .
London: Printed for
D. Midwinter,
J. and P. Knapton,
H. Knaplock,
A. Ward,
A. Bettesworth and
C. Hitch,
H. Lintot,
J. and R. Tonson,
W. Innys,
T. Longman,
R. Robinson,
T. Wotton,
S. Birt,
B. Motte,
C. Corbet and
G. Conyers.
m dcc xxxix
. [1739.]
12mo. 54 leaves, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece by and after Lud. Du Guernier.
This edition is not listed in the bibliographies.
The Alchymist was first acted in 1610 by His Majesty’s Servants. This edition of 1739 has at the beginning a list of the “Principal Comedians”,
beginning with Ric. Burbadge.
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CIBBER,
Colley.
The Double Gallant: or, The Sick Lady’s Cure. A Comedy. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq.
London: Printed for
J. and R. Tonson,
S. Crowder and Co.
H. Woodgate and
S. Brookes,
T. Caslon,
G. Kearsley, and
T. Lownds.
m dcc lxi
. [1761.]
12mo. 54 leaves including the half-title, printed title in red and black, engraved title-frontispiece by G. Vander Gucht.
This edition not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
See Baker II, 213 and Croissant,
Studies in the Work of Colley Cibber, page 21.
This comedy was first acted at the Haymarket, November 7, 1707, and printed in the same year. “The title would lead one to
suppose that it is taken directly from Corneille’s
Le Galant Double
, but it is a weaving together of Mrs. Centlivre’s
Love at a Venture
, which is an adaptation of Corneille, Burnaby’s
Ladies Visiting Day
, and the Lady Dainty action from Burnaby’s
Reformed Wife
.”--Croissant. The names of the cast are given at the beginning of this edition.
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VILLIERS,
George, Duke of Buckingham.
The Rehearsal: with a Key, or Critical View of the Authors, and their Writings, exposed in this Play. By George, late Duke of Buckingham. The
Sixteenth Edition. As it was Acted on Monday, September 14, 1761, By Command, and before Their Majesties, the King and Queen, and Most
of the Royal Family.
London: Printed for
C. Hitch and
L. Hawes,
T. Osborne,
T. Waller,
S. Crowder,
T. Longman,
A. and C. Corbett, and
T. Lownds.
m.dcc.lxi. [1761.]
12mo. 42 leaves, on C
6 with caption title, begins A Key to the Rehearsal. Or, a Critical View of the Authors, and their writings that are exposed
in this Celebrated Play. The last leaf has an Advertisement For the Benefit of every Person that has Occasion to Pawn any
Thing. This Day is published, Price only 2s. bound. The Pawnbrokers and Usurers Law.
George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, 1628-1687.
The Rehearsal was first acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in 1671 and printed in 1672. The Key was first printed in 1705, in the
second volume of Buckingham’s Miscellaneous Works. Authors of plays named in the Key include Sir William D’Avenant, Dryden,
Mrs. Aphra Behn and Sir William Killigrew. The actors’ names at the beginning of this edition include Mr. Garrick.
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