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The beaux stratagem : a comedy / George Farquhar ; with seven engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur ; and an introduction by Bonamy Dobrée.

Accession number
PML 143456
Creator
Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707.
Published
Bristol : Douglas Cleverdon, 1929.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved t.p. vignette.
"This is number ... of an edition limited to 527 copies, as follows: I copy, numbered I, containing two extra sets of the engravings ... and all the original drawings, signed ... 6 copies, numbered II to VII, containing two extra sets of the engravings ... 70 copies, numbered 1 to 70, containing an extra set of the engravings in final state. 450 copies, numbered 71 to 520. ..."--p. [iii].
Library has copy no. 445.
"The edition was originally printed at the Country Life Press, Garden City New York, by Messrs Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., who published in U.S.A. the copies numbered 2 to 520 in even numbers. The remaining copies, numbered I to VII consecutively, and 1 to 519 in odd numbers were withdrawn by Douglas Cleverdon, and reprinted for him by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. The engravings were printed by MM. A. & M. Vernant, Paris. ..."--Publisher's note, p. vii.
"Cambridge: Printed by W. Lewis, M.A., at the University Press"--Colophon.
Description
xxvii, 127 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 22 cm.
Provenance
From the libraries of Thomas Balston and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Light blue-green boards backed with blue-green cloth.
Classification
Department