The Plays of William Shakspeare ...J. Nichols and Son; F.C. and J. Rivington; J. Stockdale; W. Lowndes; G. Wilkie and J. Robinson; T. Egerton; J. Walker; Scatcherd and Letterman; W. Clarke and Sons; J. White and Company; B. Crosby and Company; W. Earle; J. Gray and Son, 1813 - 21 pages |
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... copies only for his friends , 1778 ; the sixth volume of Dr. Young's Works , 1778 , 12mo . Biographia Dramatica , " 2 volumes , 8vo . 1782 , founded upon " Baker's Companion to the Playhouse : " the biographical department of this work ...
... copies only for his friends , 1778 ; the sixth volume of Dr. Young's Works , 1778 , 12mo . Biographia Dramatica , " 2 volumes , 8vo . 1782 , founded upon " Baker's Companion to the Playhouse : " the biographical department of this work ...
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... copies of his plays ; the merits of his respective editors , & c . & c . have been so minutely investigated on former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's patience ...
... copies of his plays ; the merits of his respective editors , & c . & c . have been so minutely investigated on former occasions , that any fresh advertisement of similar tendency might be considered as a tax on the reader's patience ...
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... copies and plates , however , are said at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confess that they are all unlike each other , and convey no distinct resemblance of the poor remains of their ...
... copies and plates , however , are said at different times to have been made from it ; but a regard for truth obliges us to confess that they are all unlike each other , and convey no distinct resemblance of the poor remains of their ...
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... Vertue , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
... Vertue , in short , though a laborious , was a very in- different draughtsman , and his best copies too often exhibit a general instead of a particular resemblance . tales has no better foundation than the vanity of our ADVERTISEMENT . 25.
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... copies of sixteen or seventeen of our author's plays : True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less cor- rupted editions of these very dramas be solely attributed to the monopolizing vigilance of its editors , Messieurs Hemings ...
... copies of sixteen or seventeen of our author's plays : True : but may not our want of yet earlier and less cor- rupted editions of these very dramas be solely attributed to the monopolizing vigilance of its editors , Messieurs Hemings ...
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