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GEORGE COLMAN
The Poor Gentleman: A Comedy in Five Acts
Philadelphia: J. Charles for P. Byrne, 1801. 12mo., uncut in modern blue cloth.
"Third" edition, published in the same year that Colman the Younger's play was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Ollapod in Act IV, scene i, exclaims: "Stay -- here's Kent, fertile in pheasants, cherries, hops, yeomen, codlings and cricketers", a quotation to be found on the title-page to Ashley-Cooper's Kent Cricket Matches (lot 217). SCARCE PHILADELPHIAN IMPRINT. cf. Padwick 6804-1 who refers only to the 1802 London edition.
The Poor Gentleman: A Comedy in Five Acts
Philadelphia: J. Charles for P. Byrne, 1801. 12mo., uncut in modern blue cloth.
"Third" edition, published in the same year that Colman the Younger's play was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Ollapod in Act IV, scene i, exclaims: "Stay -- here's Kent, fertile in pheasants, cherries, hops, yeomen, codlings and cricketers", a quotation to be found on the title-page to Ashley-Cooper's Kent Cricket Matches (lot 217). SCARCE PHILADELPHIAN IMPRINT. cf. Padwick 6804-1 who refers only to the 1802 London edition.
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