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Ximena, or, The heroick daughter : a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty's Servants

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Type of record: Book

Title: Ximena, or, The heroick daughter : a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty's Servants

Other titles: Heroick daughter; Heroic daughter

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Lt d/ROW

Creator(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

Additional creator(s): Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) (Other)

Related people: Corneille, Pierre

Publisher: Printed for J. Tonson, A. Bettesworth, B. Lintot and J. Watts, and sold by W. Feales

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1735

Language: English

Size and medium: xxxvi, [2], 57, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/271758

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018121439705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Title page in red and black.


Based partly on Corneille's Cid.


Dedication to Sir Richard Steele, dated 1719.


Engraved frontispiece illustration by Lud. Du Guernier included in pagination and signatures.


Includes author's preface, "To the reader": p. [xiii]-xxxvi.


Reference: ESTC t052848.

Additional description

Bound with four other publications. Volume contents: 1. Rowe, N.: Fair penitent, 1735 -- 2. Shakespeare, W.: Othello, the Moor of Venice, 1734 -- 3. Rowe, N.: Tragedy of Jane Shore, 1733 -- 4. Congreve, W.: Mourning bride, 1733 -- 5. Cibber, C.: Ximena: or, the heroick daughter, 1735. Bookplate of John Wickham Flower, Croydon, pasted inside front cover, with signature of later owner (C. Bernstein?)

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