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Almida : a tragedy : as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane

Title: Almida : a tragedy : as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane / by a lady.
Author: Celesia, Dorothea, 1738-1790.
Publication: London : T. Becket and Co. in the Strand, 1771.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KGV (Voltaire. Tancrede. English. 1771) 01-124	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Supervised use	NCO p.v. 201	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description

[8], 66, [2] p.; 21 cm. (8vo)

Subjects

Note

An adaptation of Voltaire's Tancrède; in verse.
Adapted by Dorothy Celesia. Cf. Rousseau; Evans.
"The ... hand of Mr. Garrick made a few additions and alterations"--Advertisement.
Another London : T. Beckett, 1771 ed. is paginated [6], 66, [2] p. Cf. Evans 509.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-I⁴ K².
Type flower t.p. ornament; ornamental head- and tailpieces.

Indexed In (note)

ESTC (RLIN)
Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032)
Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121)

Provenance (note)

Copy in *KGV: Martin J. Gross Collection; William Vaughan (autograph on half title, dated 1771).

Call Number

NCO p.v. 201

LCCN

22014621

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Author

Celesia, Dorothea, 1738-1790.

Title

Almida : a tragedy : as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane / by a lady.

Imprint

London : T. Becket and Co. in the Strand, 1771.

Indexed In:

ESTC (RLIN) T21283

Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 369

Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 8 (1959): 9-121), 508

Provenance

Copy in *KGV: Martin J. Gross Collection; William Vaughan (autograph on half title, dated 1771).

Added Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778. Tancrède.

Garrick, David, 1717-1779.

Vaughan, William. Former owner

Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Research Call Number

NCO p.v. 201

*KGV (Voltaire. Tancrède. English. 1771) 01-124