[Rarebooks] fa: TRISTRAM SHANDY: A SENTIMENTAL BAGATELLE in Two Acts 1783 - Bound w/ 5 other 18th-Century Comedies

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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[Leonard MacNally:] Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental, Shandean Bagatelle, in Two Acts. By the Author of Retaliation. London: Printed for S. Bladon, No. 13. Pater-noster Row, MDCCLXXXIII [1783]. [8], 28 pp. First(?) edition (no edition stated, author's name on the dedication). ESTC T2462.

BOUND WITH:

[Anonymous:] The Informers Outwitted: A Tragi-Comical Farce, As it has been Rehears'd at the New-Exchange in Rag-Fair. Written Originally in Hebrew, and Translated by Solomon Bung-Your-Eye, Gent. London: Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, 1738. First edition; [10], 58 pp.; woodcut ornament and initials; engraved title-page trimmed and laid down. ESTC T139163.

[Henry Dell:] The Frenchified Lady Never in Paris, taken from Dryden and Colley Cibber, Poets Laureat. London: Printed for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate at the Golden Ball, in Pater Noster-Row, MDCCLVII [1757]. First edition; [2], ii, 40 pp. ESTC T40217.

[Hugh Kelly: The Romance of an Hour. A Comedy. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1774.] Lacking the title-page; [10], 43, [1] pp.

[William O'Brien:] Cross Purposes: A Farce of Two Acts. London: Printed for T. Davies…and sold by W. Goldsmith…, [1775?] The third edition; [4], 52 pp. ESTC T53707.

[Henry Dell:] The Musical Lady. A Farce. London: Printed for T. Becket, the Corner of the Adelphi, in the Strand, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]. [6], 40 pp. ESTC T41650.

MacNally's "Shandean Bagatelle" was the first stage adaptation of Laurence Sterne's popular Tristram Shandy; an uncommon title, as is the second-named work, The Informers Outwitted, a comedy dedicated "to the Distillers, Druggists, Apothecaries, Chymists, Keepers of Publick Houses, and Chandlers Shops."

Together, six plays in one volume, small 8vo (19 cm), bound in full period tree calf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; joints professionally repaired, corners a little bumped; some leaves trimmed close, touching a few catch-words but not affecting any text; occasional soiling and light toning and spotting; else generally clean and sound, firmly bound. Front paste-down with the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., and the library shelving label of Easton Neston, the Hesketh's Hawksmoor-designed country house in Northamptonshire.