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FIELDING, Henry. The Historical Register for the Year 1736. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. London: J. Roberts, [but Edinburgh by W. Cheyne], [1737].
8° (160 x 95 mm). 41 pages. (Small internal tear on ?7, small marginal tear on final leaf.) Modern paneled calf antique.
SCARCE FIRST EDITION, published the same year as the second edition (though not so named) and identified by the page count: 41, as here, against 48 in the second. Fielding’s satire on contemporary social events caricatures Colley Cibber (as “Ground-Ivy”) and the auctioneer Christopher Cock (as “Mr. Hen”). ESTC claims that this 41-page issue is pirated, and was published with a false imprint. Only the copy at the British Library is located.
“The success of this play -- a transparently personal kind of satire that, with its predecessor Pasquin, HF modeled on the ‘old comedy’ of Aristophanes -- provoked the government to pass the Thearical Licensing Act in June of this year. In mimicry of the historical survey published annually under the same title, Medley the author rehearses his actors in a ‘revue’ of the principal theatrical and political follies of the year 1736” (Battestin, Fielding Companion, p. 181). Fielding attacks, Colley Cibber, Theophilus Cibber, Farinelli, Christopher Cock and most dangerously Sir Robert Walpole and his brother Horatio Walpole. Also of note is the inclusion of Eurydice Hiss’d, one of Fielding’s most successful afterpieces. Not in the Hyde collection. Cross III, p. 301; ESTC T89877
8° (160 x 95 mm). 41 pages. (Small internal tear on ?7, small marginal tear on final leaf.) Modern paneled calf antique.
SCARCE FIRST EDITION, published the same year as the second edition (though not so named) and identified by the page count: 41, as here, against 48 in the second. Fielding’s satire on contemporary social events caricatures Colley Cibber (as “Ground-Ivy”) and the auctioneer Christopher Cock (as “Mr. Hen”). ESTC claims that this 41-page issue is pirated, and was published with a false imprint. Only the copy at the British Library is located.
“The success of this play -- a transparently personal kind of satire that, with its predecessor Pasquin, HF modeled on the ‘old comedy’ of Aristophanes -- provoked the government to pass the Thearical Licensing Act in June of this year. In mimicry of the historical survey published annually under the same title, Medley the author rehearses his actors in a ‘revue’ of the principal theatrical and political follies of the year 1736” (Battestin, Fielding Companion, p. 181). Fielding attacks, Colley Cibber, Theophilus Cibber, Farinelli, Christopher Cock and most dangerously Sir Robert Walpole and his brother Horatio Walpole. Also of note is the inclusion of Eurydice Hiss’d, one of Fielding’s most successful afterpieces. Not in the Hyde collection. Cross III, p. 301; ESTC T89877