Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
Spring 1967
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/3
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 73 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 23 [?PITT (William)] Balaam’s Politicks; or, the Modern Machiavel. Printed for A. Price, 1750. £5 5s 8vo, unbound, uncut. With half-title and advt. leaf at end. First EDITION. The B.M. suggests Pitt on the strength of its own copy, which is inscribed “Ex dono authoris W.P., 18th March 1750.” Though trade comes into it, the pamphlet is not in Kress. PLAY. CoLMaAN (George, the younger) The Poor Gentleman: A Comedy... As performed at... Covent Garden... Printed by A. Strahan, 1802. £3 3s 8vo, unbound; pp. 83 (Epilogue. p. [84]), 2 Il. (adverts.) Alladyce Nicoll claims ptiority for an undated 12mo of [1801]. PLAY. CUMBERLAND (Richard) The Battle of Hastings, a Tragedy. As it is Acted at . Drury-Lane. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1788. £4 4s 8vo, unbound; 2 Il., pp. 92. FIRST EDITION. PLAY. FENTON (Elijah) Marianne. A Tragedy... Printed for #. Tonson .. . 1723. £10 10s 8vo, stitched as issued uncut in original wrappers ; some dampstaining, but a generally fresh copy, RARE IN THIS STATE. FIRST EDITION. PLAY. [GRIFFITH (Mrs. E., after BEAUMARCHAIS)] The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution; A Comedy ... with Songs, &c. Printed for the Author, and sold by F. Blew, 1776. £12 10s 8vo, unbound; 1 1. (title); pp. iv; [2]; 1-70; 11. (advert. for the Overture & Music). The collation appears to require no half-title. First ENGLISH EDITION of this classic. With her preface addressed to SHERIDAN; and notes on the characters’ dress (“in the old Spanish Fashion’). PLAY. INCHBALD (Mrs.) Such Things Are... As performed at... .Covent Garden. Printed for G.G.f. and F. Robinson, 1788. £3 10s 8vo, unbound. FIRST EDITION. PLAY. KILLIGREW (Thomas, the younger) Chit-Chat. A Comedy. Printed 43 Bernard Lintot .. . [1719]. £12 10s 8vo, unbound; 4 I. (incl. half-title), pp.70, 1 1. of Lintot’s advertisements (the latter torn but complete). FIRST EDITION. PLAY. Rare (The). A Tragedy. As it is now Acting at . . . Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields. Printed for #. Roberts, 1730. £5 5s 8vo, unbound. With half-title. An acknowledged adaptation of Dr. Nicholas Brady’s Rape, or Innocent Imposters of 1692, Nicoll gives its printing as 1729 (it was staged in November) but there is no sign that this is a second printing, and Baket’s Biog. Dramatica gives 1730. PLAY. SOUTHERNE (Thomas) The Spartan Dame. A Tragedy. Printed for W. Chetwood ... and T. Fauncy, 1719. £6 6s 8vo, unbound; 4 Il., pp. 70, 1 1. Some stains, especially at end. FIRST EDITION. PLAY. The What Is It? A Tragi-Comic-Pastoral-Musical Entertainment... at the Royal Circus, in St. George’s-Fields. Southwark: Printed by W. Kemmish, 1789. £4 4s 8vo, unbound, pp. 20. The title is apt, but we class this oddment as a “play’’, following Allardyce Nicoll’s lead—though he does not record this example. Charles Dibdin staged many pantomimes and miscellaneous musical pieces at the Royal Circus (later Surrey Theatre). PLAY. THOMSON (James) Edward and Eleonora. A Tragedy. As it was to have been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden... Printed for the Author; and sold by A. Millar, 1739. £10 10s 8vo, unbound. Banned on account of Thomson’s friendliness with the Prince of Wales and a possible allusion to it in one of the episodes. An Advertisement (A4 recto) records this prohibition. The Dedication is to the Princess of Wales.
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