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The English tavern at Berlin : a comedy in three acts
Harlow, Elizabeth (fl. 1789)
1790
With half title.
Zadig; or, The book of fate : An oriental history
Voltaire (1694-1778)
1749
First English translation. Vertical chain-lines. The t.p. is engraved. Ornaments: tail-piece. Signatures: pi1 A6 B-K12 L11. Last leaf blank.
An essay upon the civil wars of France, extracted from curious manuscripts : And also upon the epick poetry of the European nations from Homer down to Milton
Voltaire (1694-1778); Prevost, N
1731
The "Discourse on tragedy" forms the epistle dedicatory to Lord Bolingbroke, originally prefixed to Brutus. "Intended as a kind of preface or introduction to the Henriade."
Love in many masks
Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823); Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)
1790
An adaptation of the first part of The rover.
The impostors : a comedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
1789
The ton : or, Follies of fashion. A comedy. As it was acted at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Wallace, Lady Eglantine (1803)
1788
Letters concerning the English nation
Voltaire (1694-1778); Lockman, John (1698-1771)
MDCCXLI [1741]
Translation, by John Lockman, of Lettres philosophiques. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Published first in English in 1733, and in France a year later under the title "Lettres philosophiques." The hypothesis (BN...