Shelfmark
Go.7.03 - Go.7.06
Author
Uniform title
[Plays]
Title
The dramatick works of George Colman ... .
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for T. Becket, Adelphi, Strand., MDCCLXXVII..
Physical description
4 v. ([4], 292, [10]; [4], 294; [4], 324; [4], 348 p.) ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Note
Includes half-titles.
Note
Signatures: vol. 1: [A]² B-U⁸ (-U8); vol. 2: [A]² B-T⁸ U⁴ (-U4; U4=[A]2?); vol. 3: [A]² B-X⁸ Y²; vol. 4: [A]² B-Y⁸ Z⁶.
Note
All leaves except for the first two leaves of v.1-3 (titles and half-titles) have horizontal chain-lines.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Volume the first; containing, The jealous wife, The clandestine marriage. -- Volume the second; containing, The English merchant, The man of business, Man and wife; or, The Shakespeare jubilee. -- Volume the third; containing alterations of Philaster, King Lear, Epicoene; or, The silent woman. -- Volume the fourth; containing, Polly Honeycombe, The musical lady, The deuce is in him, The Oxonian in town, The portrait, The fairy prince, Occasional prelude, The spleen; or Islington-Spa, New brooms!.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T34936
Provenance
Ex libris label of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College, on front pastedown.
Binding
18th-century mottled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt roll to form a border; gilt roll on board edges and turn-ins. Spine flat with gilt fillets, tools and titling over black label ("Colman"). Textblock trimmed and marbled. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
English drama (Comedy) 18th century.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Beaumont, Francis, 1584 - 1616 Philaster.
Added entry--name
Shakespeare, William, 1564 - 1616 King Lear.
Added entry--name
Jonson, Ben, 1573? - 1637 Epicoene.
Added entry--name
Becket, Thomas, fl. 1760 - 1815 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51081