17
Frankly
[
sic
] on antient tragedy.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 159, no. 6, Franklyn on Antient Tragedy, 12mo.
[FRANCKLIN,
Thomas.]
A Dissertation on Antient Tragedy.
London,
1768.
12mo. A copy of this work in duodecimo has not been located; the information was obtained from the British Museum Catalogue.
Halkett and Laing II, 91.
Not in Lowndes.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
Thomas Francklin, 1721-1784, English miscellaneous writer. The first edition of this work was published without date in 1760 in quarto. A
copy of this edition is in the Library of Congress and has an engraved plate,
Plan of a Greek Theatre. For another work by him, see no. 4523.
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Riccoboni’s account of the theatres in Europe.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 159, no. 11, as above.
RICCOBONI,
Luigi.
An Historical and Critical Account of the Theatres in Europe. Viz. The Italian-Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Flemish, and
German Theatres. In which is contain’d a Review of the Manner, Persons and Character of the Actors; intermix’d with many Curious
Dissertations upon the Drama. Together with Two Celebrated Essays: viz. An Essay on Action, or, The Art of Speaking in Public:
And, A Comparison of the Ancient and Modern Drama. By the famous Lewis Riccoboni of the Italian Theatre at Paris. The Whole illustrated with Notes by the Author and Translator.
London: Printed for
T. Waller, in the Temple; and
R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall,
1741.
PN2100 .R6
First Edition of this Translation. 8vo. 184 leaves including the half-title.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Lowndes IV, 2082.
Courville,
Bibliographie de Luigi Riccoboni dit Lélio, no. 84.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate pasted on the same fly-leaf as the armorial bookplate of Reuben Skelton.
Jefferson probably acquired this book on his marriage to Martha Skelton, the sister-in-law of Reuben.
Luigi Riccoboni, 1674-1738, Italian actor and author. The original
French edition of this work was published in Paris in 1738. The translator into
English, whose identity is not known, dedicated his work to Charles Fleetwood.
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