The blind beggar of Bethnal Green : A dramatic performance: : with several instructive and entertaining pieces
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Type of record: Book
Title: The blind beggar of Bethnal Green : A dramatic performance: : with several instructive and entertaining pieces
Other titles: King and the priest; Poems and essays on several occasions; Pleasure the best religion
Classmark: BC Lt/BUR
Creator(s): Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)
Additional creator(s): Saint-Evremond (1613-1703) (Other)
Related people: Saint-Evremond
Publisher: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street
Publication city: Philadelphia
Date(s): 1777
Language: English
Size and medium: 108[i.e. 109], [4] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/269235
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017760479705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Without the music (by Arne).
Title vignette, signed: Smith sculp.
Signatures: A-O⁴.
Error in paging: p. 78-80 misnumbered 77-79.
"The king and the priest: being an attempt to introduce upon the stage, a new species of pantomime." -- p. [27]-35; "Poems and essays on several occasions. By the same author." -- p. 37-76; "Pleasure the best religion -- p. 76bis-90; "The husband, wife, and the doctor. A matrimonial history. From the French of Monsieur de St. Evremont." -- p. [91]-108.
Bookseller's catalogue, p. [109-112].
"The husband, wife and the doctor" has running title "A matrimonial history"; the French original has not been identified.
Indexed in: Evans 15288.
Additional description
Initials "E.D.I.", 1819, and later pencil note referring to purchase, 1855, on recto of front free endpaper; MS index on verso of it. Bound with six other publications. Volume contents: 1. Burgoyne, J.: Maid of the oaks, 1777 -- 2. Kelly, H.: Romance of an hour, 1777 -- 3. Goldoni, C.: Accompolish'd maid, 1777 -- 4. Dobbs, F.: Irish chief, 1777 -- 5. Dodsley, R.: Blind beggar of Bethnal Green, 1777 -- 6. Home, J.: Alonzo and Ormisinda, 1777 -- 7. Garrick, D.: Lying valet, 1778
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