The disappointment; or, The mother in fashion: a play as it was acted at the Theatre Royal
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Type of record: Book
Title: The disappointment; or, The mother in fashion: a play as it was acted at the Theatre Royal
Classmark: BC Lt/SOU
Creator(s): Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746)
Additional creator(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) (Other); Stafford, J (fl. 1684) (Other); Hindmarsh, Joseph (fl. 1678-1696) (Other); E. B (Other); Ormonde, James Butler Duke of (1665-1745) (Other)
Related people: Dryden, John; Stafford, J; Hindmarsh, Joseph; E. B; Ormonde, James Butler
Publisher: printed for Jo. Hindmash
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1684
Language: English
Size and medium: [6],1-28 31-32 41-69 (i.e.59), [3]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283855
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001845199705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition. Pforzheimer Library 954. For printing history of gathering E see F. Bowers, The supposed cancel in Southerne's The disappointment reconsidered, The Library, 5th series v. 5, (1951), 140-149; for gathering I identifying second state with names of writers of the prologue and epilogue (J. Dryden and J. Stafford) see R. D. Hummel, A further note on Southerne's The disappointment, The Library, 5th Series, v. 1, (1947), p. 67-69. The epilogue is attributed to Dryden in Miscellany poems, London, 1702, 3rd edition.
Dedicated to James Butler, Earl of Ossory, later 2nd Duke of Ormonde.
Paper: watermarked: fleur de lys EB/-.
Signatures A and E each consist of 3 ff. only.
Indexed in: Wing S4755; Macdonald, H. 121.
Additional description
Part of the imprint, including the first figure of the date, lost through mutilation of the title-leaf, which has been repaired. Lower and inner margins of last leaf also mutilated
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