The Beauties of Modern Dramatists. Containing all the Interesting Characters, Sentiments, Speeches, &c. in the Most Favourite Drmas of our Present Authors. Connected and Digested under Appropriate Heads, Alphabetically Srranged
by OULTON (Walley Chamberlain):
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London: Printed [by J. Bbarker] for West and Hughs..., 1800. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 2 volumes. 12mo, 175 x 100 mms., pp. [iv], 288; 261 [262 blank, 263 Author's Names, 264 blank], engraved frontispiece of five dramatists (Cumberland, O'Keefe, Inchbald, Dibdin, Sheridan), contemporary half calf, spines blocked in blind, red leather labels (one chipped); some wear to joints but a good set, with the early ownership of Isabella Jones to titles and neat authorships supplied in ink to some passage, Walley Chamberlain Oulton (1761/21840), playwright and theatre historian, was born in Dublin and enjoyed some success in Dublin as a playwright in the early part of career. He saw the high road that leads to London in the mid-1780s where his career as a dramatist never quite met his expectations.
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- The Beauties of Modern Dramatists. Containing all the Interesting Characters, Sentiments, Speeches, &c. in the Most Favourite Drmas of our Present Authors. Connected and Digested under Appropriate Heads, Alphabetically Srranged
- Author
- OULTON (Walley Chamberlain):
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Hardcover
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- London: Printed [by J. Bbarker] for West and Hughs..., 1800
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- Drama theatre LITERATURE
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