The recruiting officer. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane: by Her Majesty's servants by George Farquhar - 2010-06-10

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-05-29. Paperback. Good.

London: printed for J. Harrison, No 18, Paternoster-Row; and sold, likewise, by J. Wenman, Fleet-Street; and all other booksellers, 1778.. Soft cover. Good. Octavo. 23, [i]pp. Disbound. ESTC T46514.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Peter Davies, Oxford University Press, 1926. Number 130 of 550 copies printed. Hardcover. Good (Boards are bumped and smudged and moderately edgeworn; bookplate ifc; may be minor pencil markings and age-toning; textblock edges are darkened and smudged; pages are clean; binding is solid.). Willoughby, Vera. Three-Quarter bound boards with light green spine and gilt lettering; colorfully illustrated covers with mounted title card with black lettering; 61 untrimmed pp, richly illustrated with plates. Top-edge gilted textblock. With a note on the author and the play by Sir Edmund Gosse. Limited to 550 copies. This is numbered "130.

Hardback. New.

London: Peter Davies, Oxford University Press, 1926. Number 234 of 550 copies printed. Hardcover. VG - (Boards are bumped and smudged and moderately edgeworn; corners are bent in; ifc has sticker remnant; may be minor pencil markings and age-toning; textblock edges are darkened and smudged; pages are clean; binding is solid.). Willoughby, Vera. Three-Quarter bound boards with light green spine and gilt lettering; colorfully illustrated covers with mounted title card with black lettering; 61 untrimmed pp, richly illustrated with plates. Top-edge gilted textblock. With a note on the author and the play by Sir Edmund Gosse. Limited to 550 copies. This is numbered "234.

Pages 61 pp.Folio. Purple cloth spine, patterned cloth over boards. Limited edition of 550 numbered copies. Illustrated by Vera Willoughby. Spine faded, covers showing some minor soil and wear. Owner’s signature. In good condition.

London: Printed for Peter Davies, 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Limited edition, copy #132 /550. Printed at the Oxford University Press. 61 p.p., [3 p.p.]. Twelve colour plates with beautiful illustrations. Introductory note by Edmund Gosse. Half bound in cream calf with geometric paper boards, title in gilt to spine and to onlay on front board. Damp staining to boads, sunning to head, calf lightly soiled, wear to edges and corners, bumping to corners, a few scuffs. Watermarks to mould-made paper. Some offsetting to pages, as well as some light staining and a few smudges. The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 play by the Irish writer George Farquhar, which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury (the town where Farquhar himself was posted in this capacity) to recruit soldiers.

London, Printed for T. Caslon, T. Lowndes, T. Becket and W. Nicoll, 1771. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 72 including half-title, disbound; text foxed, last page soiled. ESTC on-line locates copies at BL, Trinity College Cambridge, Bodleian, Folger, Rice University, University of Texas, and University of Otago.

London : printed for Bernard Lintot; and sold by W. Feales, 1736. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Worn copy in the original gilt-blocked calf over matching boards. Panel edges dulled and dust-toned as with age. Physical description: 94, [2]p. : ill. Subjects: English drama. Comedy.