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London: Henry Herringman , 1691. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Old greenish gray boards, with brown leather spine and tips. 63pp.+ Epilogue.
An Evening's Love: Or, The Mock-Astrologer. As it is Acted By Their Majesties Servants. By Mr. Dryden by Dryden, John
by Dryden, John
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An Evening's Love: Or, The Mock-Astrologer. As it is Acted By Their Majesties Servants. By Mr. Dryden
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1631-1700 Quarto, 8.6 x 6.5 inches. Fourth edition. A-K4. 63 pp. This copy is disbound. Produced at the King's House on the twenty-second of June, 1668. The descent of this comedy has been traced through the French from the Spanish. There is no mistaking its origin. The Spanish dances in its veins with a sprightliness Dryden has nowhere so pleasantly sustained. The most curious element in it is the intimate knowledge it reveals of the mysteries of astrology. The state of society that could have endured the prologue to this must have renounced even the affectation of decency." (Annotated Edition of the English Poets, by Robert Bell)
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An Evenings Love: Or, The Mock-Astrologer [As it is Acted By Their Majesties Servants]
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London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1691. [16], 63pp, [1]. Recent tan cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Minor wear to extremities. Dust-soiled throughout, occasional light damp-staining to bottom margins, loss to top corner of terminal leaf, not effecting text. An Evening's Love, a comedy in prose, by playwright John Dryden (1631-1700) was first performed before Charles II on the 12th June 1668. Diarist Samuel Pepys attended on the June 20th of that same year and found it lacking in merit, styling it as being 'very smutty'. Sources for the work include Thomas Corneille's comedy Le Feint Astrologue, Madeleine de Scuderyss novel Ibrahim, ou l'Illustre Bassa, and Calderon's El Astrologo fingido. The present copy is the fourth printing by prominent London bookseller Henry Herringman who had published the original edition in 1671. Wing D2276.. Quarto.
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London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1691. [16], 63pp, [1]. Later two-tone paper boards. Extremities a trifle marked. Leaves toned. An Evening's Love, a comedy in prose, by playwright John Dryden (1631-1700) was first performed before Charles II on the 12th June 1668. Diarist Samuel Pepys attended on the June 20th of that same year and found it lacking in merit, styling it as being 'very smutty'. Sources for the work include Thomas Corneille's comedy Le Feint Astrologue, Madeleine de Scuderyss novel Ibrahim, ou l'Illustre Bassa, and Calderon's El Astrologo fingido. The present copy is the fourth printing by prominent London bookseller Henry Herringman who had published the original edition in 1671. ESTC R15472, Wing D2276.. Quarto.
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