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[LANSDOWNE, GEORGE GRANVILLE, Baron]. The Jew of Venice. A Comedy. London: Ber[nard] Lintott, 1701. 4to, 18th-century panelled calf (a rembotage), rebacked and corners repaired, uncut, a few minor holes to blank portion of half-title, final leaf frayed and just catching last line of Lintott's advertisement on final page, a few leaves slightly browned. FIRST EDITION, half-title. Ford Shakespeare 1700-40, no. 180; Bartlett 183; Nicoll, p. 333; Roth, p. 400 (B19, no. 9). Bookplate of Harvey Bonnell.
An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, with a masque, Peleus and Thetis, inserted in Act II. The profits from this play were given to the family of John Dryden who had died in 1700. An attractive copy.
An adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, with a masque, Peleus and Thetis, inserted in Act II. The profits from this play were given to the family of John Dryden who had died in 1700. An attractive copy.