The Author's Farce; and the Pleasures of the Town. As Acted at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Written

by Scriblerus Secundus by Henry Fielding

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. viii , 59, 5 pp. 8vo. Period paneled calf. Some pale browning and spotting at margins, small closed tear to top margin of title and chip to following leaf. Cross III, p. 290-1; ESTC N15803. Provenance: Bernard Quaritch pencil note on rear pastedown ; Louis & Anne Marie Davidson bookplate . Item #308039 First edition of Fielding's third play, a comic ballad opera in the mold of Gay's

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