Shelfmark
Fq.5.12
Author
Title
Amendments of Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations, &c. From the old batchelour, double dealer, love for love, mourning bridge. By the author of those plays.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for J. Tonson at the Judge's Head in Fleet Street, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, 1698.
Physical description
[4], 80, 71-109, [1]p ; 20cm. (8vo.)
Note
The author of those plays = William Congreve.
Note
A reply to: Collier, Jeremy. A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
The words "Old batchelour, ... Mourning bride" are gathered, on title page, by a left brace.
Note
A variant has the preliminary quarter-sheet reprinted and Sig [D6] a cancel. "... the verso of the half-title reads: "[rule] / ADVERTISEMENT. / An Ouersight in reading Superstition / for supposition in Mr. Collier's Book, / p.64. occasion'd a mistake in a small / number of these amendments, which / were first printed off; but in the remain- / der of the Impression, the Remark ground- / ed on that Mistake is omitted, Care being / taken to have that Leaf reprinted. / [rule] /"." In the variant state "a third erratum is added on verso of the title, and a sentence which appears on recto of the cancellandum (p.43) is omitted from the cancellans."--cf. Pforzheimer Catalogue.
Note
Title page in two settings: line 2 of Latin quote from Salust has (1) "quem morbo" or (2) "quam morbo".
Note
Title page with "quem morbo" has 2 errata on verso; title page with "quam morbo" has 3 errata on verso, i.e. the variant delineated above by Pforzheimer.
Note
Eton copy has title page with "quam morbo" and 3 errata on verso.
Note
Bound with: Animadversions on Mr. Congreve's late answer... (1698).
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C5844; Pforzheimer, 192 (variant); ESTC R18926
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1974. 1 microfilm reel ; 35mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 486:39).
Provenance
Loose ms. bookseller's notes.
Binding
17th century brown speckled calf; single blind fillet to form a border; four raised bands.
Subject
Collier, Jeremy, 1650 - 1726 Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage
Subject
Congreve, William, 1670 - 1729 Amendments of Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations, &c
Subject
Theater Moral and ethical aspects Early works to 1800.
Subject
Theater Early works to 1800 England.
Added entry--name
Tonson, Jacob, 1656? - 1736 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B19326