Shelfmark
Krr.3.46(05)
Author
Uniform title
[The devil to pay; or the wives metamorphos'd. Abridgments.]
Title
The devil to pay; or, the wives metamorphos'd. By Charles Coffey..
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London : s. n., 1777]
Physical description
8 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Note
An abridgment of Charles Coffey's three-act play of the same title, adapted, with help from John Mottley, from Thomas Jevon's 'The devil of a wife'.
Note
Possibly issued, in 1777, with 'The merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare.
Note
Drop-head title.
Note
Printed in two columns.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T31757
Provenance
No provenance information recorded in this item.
Binding
Sammelband. Late 18th- or early 19th-century half speckled calf and brown speckled or marbled paper over pasteboard. Spine rounded, divided into six large compartments by transverse gilt single fillets; second compartment from head of spine has title-label with gilt lettering; false headbands of alternating red and green thread. Textblock trimmed and rounded. Endpapers comprising at both sides a single bifolium of laid paper, forming a pastedown with free endpaper; undecorated.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's code on upper endpaper recto of sammelband.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 37 other items, shelfmarks Krr.3.46(01) - (04), (06) - (38).
Copy-specific note
Ms. verse, in a 18th-century hand, on p. 8, mentioning each of the four named women characters in the play: "Faith Coffey, I think, 'tis very well wrought! / And in it a lesson to all you have taught. / For far be the [?]tribes, but [?w]here you may tell, / A Loverule, a Lucy, a Letty, a Nell." Possibly the hand of John Strayne Wilton, who write in Krr.3.45 (the ductus is more rapid here, but lettershapes match; plus the bookseller's codes suggest they were sold at the same time).
Subject
English drama (Comedy) 18th century.
Subject
Musicals Librettos.
Genre/Form
Plays.
Genre/Form
Comedies.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50729