Price. Sotheby’s, July 9, 1889 [“Sale of Original Drawings to Martin Chuzzlewit”], etc., fetched £34. Sotheby’s [plates misplaced], 1890, £20.
1813
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Title: REMORSE. | A TRAGEDY, | in FIVE ACTS. | By S. T. COLERIDGE |. [Quotation] London: | printed for W. Pople, 67, Chancery Lane. | 1813 | Price three shillings. | 8vo.
Collation: Title, 1 page. pp. viii. Prologue, 1 unnumbered page, Dramatis Personæ, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 72. Size 5½ × 8¾.
Note. The Prologue was written by Lamb and spoken by Mr. Carr. The Play, written in 1797, was originally entitled “Osorio.” It was brought out, revised, and re-named “Remorse,” at Drury Lane, on January 23, 1813, and had a run of twenty nights. The London Times of January 25 said of the Prologue: “The Prologue was, we hope, by some ‘d—d good natured friend,’ who had an interest in injuring the play. It was abominable.”
Price. Scribner & Welford [half calf], $6.50.
1814
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Title: SOME | ENQUIRIES | INTO | THE EFFECTS | of | FERMENTED LIQUORS. | By a Water Drinker. | London: | Printed for J. Johnson and Co. | St. Paul’s Church yard | 1814. 8vo