Shelfmark
Em.6.14
Author
Uniform title
[Plays.]
Title
The dramatic works of William Wicherly, Esq; containing Love in a Wood; or, St. James's Park. The gentleman dancing-master. The plain dealer. The country wife..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : printed for Messieurs Hawes, Clarke and Collins; T. Longman, T. Lowndes, and C. Corbett., [1768?]
Physical description
[2], 100, [4]; 96, [4]; 116, [4]; 83, [1] p. , [2] leaves of plates : ill. (frontis. ports.) ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Note
Each play has a separate dated titlepage, pagination and register.
Note
'Love in a wood' and 'The gentleman dancing-master' are dated 1768 and bear the imprint: printed for Mess. Rivington, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, T. Longman, W. Johnston [and 4 others in London].
Note
'The plain dealer' is dated 1765 and bears the imprint: printed for Mess. Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, and T. Longman; T. Lowndes, and C. Corbett.
Note
'The country wife' is dated 1751 and bears the imprint: printed for C. Bathurst; frontispiece portrait bears the imprint: "Publish'd July 19th 1777 by T. Lowndes & Partners."
Note
With two (additional?) engraved frontipieces before the third and fourth plays. Respectively, the engravings by Daniel Dodd and Joseph Collyer after illustrations by John June and Charles Reuben Ryley
Citation/references note
ESTC, T34935
Provenance
20th century pictorial bookplate of C. J. M. Adie on upper pastedown.
Binding
18th century light brown sheepskin over millboard, sewn on recessed supports; ?rebacked and repaired (20th century). Both covers undecorated; extension of leather from spine to approx. 10% of covers. Spine smooth and slightly rounded, decorated with transverse blind fillets; onlaid spine label (gilt titling over red morocco; "Wicherly's Works."); ?false endbands of alternating red and brown thread. Textblock trimmed and undecorated. New endpapers comprising a bifolium of plain white wove paper (pastedown and flyleaf).
Subject
English drama (Comedy) 18th century.
Genre/Form
Plays
Genre/Form
Comedies
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
June, John illustrator
Added entry--name
Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752? - 1798 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Angus, William, 1752 - 1821 engraver.
Added entry--name
Collyer, Joseph, ? - d. 1776 engraver.
Added entry--name
Dodd, Daniel illustrator.
Added entry--place
England London
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50939