The upholsterer, or What news? : a farce, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane
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Type of record: Book
Title: The upholsterer, or What news? : a farce, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane
Other titles: Tatler (London, England); Upholsterer
Classmark: BC Lt/MUR
Creator(s): Murphy, Arthur (1727-1805)
Additional creator(s): Garrick, David (1717-1779) (Other); Vaillant, Paul (1802) (Other); Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) (Other)
Related people: Garrick, David; Vaillant, Paul; Fielding, Henry; Fielding, Henry
Publisher: Printed for P. Vaillant,... in the Strand
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1758
Language: English
Size and medium: [2], iii, [3], 51, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280361
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001168769705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition.
With advertisement of "The Gray's-Inn Journal" (also by Murphy) and "The apprentice" on verso of last leaf.
Written in 1757.
Also printed in same year in Glasgow (ESTC T50615) and Dublin (ESTC T209356).
In an attempt to preserve the currency of the play, Murphy revised it for the 1763 ed., hence the subtitle of the 1763 ed.: "with alterations and additions." C.f. Emery, J. P., Arthur Murphy, p. 39.
Murphy's sources include: The Tatler, nos. 155 and 160. H. Fielding's The Coffee-House Politician, and his Joseph Andrews. C.f. Emery, J. P. Arthur Murphy, p. 36-37.
Dedicated to David Garrick.
Signatures: A-G⁴H².
Advertisement: p. [52].
Date in roman numerals.
Head- and tailpieces.
Upholsterer.
Indexed in: Three cent. of Eng. and Am. Plays p. 188.
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