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Title: SATAN IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; | with the Whole Process of | his Courtship and Marriage, | and who Danced at the Wedding. | by | an Eye Witness [Engraved Title] London: | Edward Moxon, 64 New Bond Street. | M.DCCC.XXXI.
Collation: Engraved (wood) Frontispiece, 1 page, Engraved (wood) Title, 1 page, Dedication, 1 unnumbered page. pp. 36. [Frontispiece and four illustrations.] Size 6¼ × 3¾.
Note. See “Letter to Moxon, October 24, 1831.” Illustrations, [woodcuts,] should face pages 8, 21, 32, with tail-piece [“To delicate bosoms, that have sighed over the ‘Loves of the Angels,’ this poem is with tenderest regard consecrated”]. The original cover should be preserved.
Price. Sotheby’s, 1888 [calf, gilt edge], £2 3s. Sotheby’s, 1890 [original wrappers], £8.
1833
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Title: THE WIFE: | A Tale of Mantua, | A Play, In Five Acts, | By | James Sheridan Knowles, | Author of “Virginius” “The Hunchback” &c. | London: | Edward Moxon, Dover Street. | 1833. 8vo
Collation: Advertisement, 1 page, Title, 1, Dedication, 1 page, Preface, 1 page, Prologue, 1 page, Dramatis Personæ, 1 page. pp. 120. Size 8¼ × 5.
Note. The Epilogue was written by Charles Lamb and spoken by Miss Ellen Tree. Knowles, in the edition of his plays 1833, speaks of his debt to Lamb, etc.