The recruiting officer : a comedy : as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's servants, anno 1706 / by George Farquhar ; with a note on the author and the play by Sir Edmund Gosse ; and embellish'd with designs by Véra Willoughby.

Accession number

PML 146275

Creator

Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707.

Published

London : Printed for Peter Davies, 1926.

Credit line

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes

"This reprint ... corrected according to the first edition published in 1706"--P. [4].
"The edition is limited to five hundred and fifty copies on mould-made paper: the text printed in England at the Oxford University Press ... the illustrations (in colour-collotype) by Max Jaffé, Vienna."--T.p. verso.

Description

61 p., [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. (collotype) ; 36 cm

Provenance

From the libraries of Thomas Balston and Gordon N. Ray.

Binding

Publisher's decorated 1/4 vellum boards.

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The recruiting officer : a comedy : as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's servants, anno 1706 / by George Farquhar ; with a note on the author and the play by Sir Edmund Gosse ; and embellish'd with designs by Véra Willoughby.