[THEATRE] [GOLDSMITH, Oliver.] She Stoops to Conquer: or, The Mistakes of a Night. A comedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, London: F. Newbery, 1773, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, title in Williams' Variant 2 state with "Price One Shilling and Six Pence" under the date, and with double rule below ornament of which the upper rule is out of alignment (mineute crease to lower right hand corner of title, E4 with short tear at lower margin, slight stains to F4, L3 with soil mark at margin), bound in one volume with 5 other 18th-century comedies and operettas, contemporary half calf over marbled boards (corners bumped), ownership signature of S. Skurray to front free endpaper. [Williams p. 153; Rothschild 1037]

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[THEATRE] [GOLDSMITH, Oliver.] She Stoops to Conquer: or, The Mistakes of a Night. A comedy as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, London: F. Newbery, 1773, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, title in Williams' Variant 2 state with "Price One Shilling and Six Pence" under the date, and with double rule below ornament of which the upper rule is out of alignment (mineute crease to lower right hand corner of title, E4 with short tear at lower margin, slight stains to F4, L3 with soil mark at margin), bound in one volume with 5 other 18th-century comedies and operettas, contemporary half calf over marbled boards (corners bumped), ownership signature of S. Skurray to front free endpaper. [Williams p. 153; Rothschild 1037]

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Title in Variant 2 state described by Williams and conforming to the title of the Rothschild copy; Quire B in Williams' Variant 2 state with p. 8 numbered and running title with "Or"; K1 in Variant 1 state with p. 65 misnumbered 56; quire L with mis-numberings of pp. 73-80 in Variant 1; quire M with mis-numberings of pp. 81-88 in Variant 1 and M[1] misprinted K; quire N in Variant 1 with pp. 89-96 misnumbered and on p. 92 (misprinted 100) the catchword "Tony" in error for "Hastings"; quire O in Variant 1 with pp. 97-104 misnumbered; P1, the final leaf, in variant 1 with pp. 105-106 misnumbered 113-114. George Colman's adaptation of Comus (1759) and his comedy The Man of Business (1774) are among the other works included in the volume.

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