Baker, David Erskine; Reed, Isaac; Jones, Stephen, compilers.

Biographia Dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes, of British and Irish Dramatic Writers ... Together with an Introductory View of the Rise and Progress of the British Stage.

London: Printed for Messr. Rivingtons, et. al. 1782. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. I: [iv], lii, 496pp.; II: [iv], 442pp. I:[] 2 (-[]1), b8-d8, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8; II: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ee8, Ff4, Gg2 (- Gg2 blank). With the half-title to volume II present. Blue cloth. With the ownership inscription of Thomas Fairman Ordish (1855-1924) on the verso of the front free endpaper, dated 1880. Ordish was an English author who specialized on folklore, Shakespeare and drama. One of the richest sources on British Theatre in the 17th and 18th centuries. Good.

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Book number: 1876

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Books about Books, Theater