Venice Preserv'd, Or, A Plot Discover'd. A tragedy. As it is Acted at the Duke's Theatre
Otway, Thomas
London. Printed for Jos. Hindmarsh at the Sign of teh Black Bull, over against the Royal Exchange at Cornhill. 1682
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The first edition of Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserv'd'.
An instant success on its first performance, with its allusion to contemporary politics and the Popish Plot, Otway's 'Venice Preserv'd' was translated into almost every European language and was performed with regularity until the nineteenth-century.
[Wing O567].
An instant success on its first performance, with its allusion to contemporary politics and the Popish Plot, Otway's 'Venice Preserv'd' was translated into almost every European language and was performed with regularity until the nineteenth-century.
[Wing O567].
[40 leaves; pp. (viii), 72]. Collation: A4 - I4, K4. Small 4to. (224 x 165 mm). Printed title, leaf with the 'Epistle Dedicatory to Her Grace the Dutchess of Portsmouth', two leaves with the 'Prologue', 'Epilogue' and dramatis personae and Otway's tragedy on following leaves. Title and preliminaries possibly supplied from another copy, B4 - F1 spotted, paper flaws to outer corners of I4 and K1. Sheet size: 220 x 165 mm. Modern green morocco-backed green cloth boards, title gilt to spine, marbled edges.
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