An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces, or opera's in the English tongue / by Gerard Langbaine.

Accession number

PML 6258

Creator

Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.

Published

Oxford : Printed by L[eonard]. L[ichfield]. for George West and Henry Clements, 1691.

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

Signatures: a⁸ A-2O⁸.

Description

[16], 556, [34] p. ; 19 cm

Inscriptions/Markings

Inscription on rear free endpaper: From J.O. Halliwell library.

Provenance

Author's presentation copy to "Petro Fabro," with inscription on front free endpaper; J.O. Halliwell-Phillips; Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan.

Binding

Full calf with blind and gilt stamping on covers and spine.

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