Large paper copy of the first edition of a play never acted. Half-title and title, two leaves; a1-a4, and B1-I4 in fours.
A satire on Jeremy Collier, who wrote "A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage," 1698 (two editions), and was answered by Congreve, Vanbrugh, Dennis, Dr. Drake, Dr. Filmer, and others. (See Volume I, page 302, of this Catalogue.) Collier is satirized under the name of Sir Jerry Witwoud.
The running title is "The Beaux of the Stage Toſs'd in a Blanket &c;" and the play is dedicated to Christopher Rich, Patentee of the Theatre-Royal.
Attributed to Tom Brown and to Charles Gildon.
STANHOPE, Hester, Lady.—Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician; comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some of the most remarkable persons of her time . . . London: Henry Colburn . . . 1845. 12mo, three volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
First edition. Three plates and a plan.
STANHOPE, Hester, Lady.—Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; forming the completion of her Memoirs. Narrated by her Physician . . . London: Henry Colburn . . . 1846. 12mo, three volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
First edition. Three plates and twenty woodcut illustrations.
STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn.—The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, . . . by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, . . . Third edition. London: B. Fellowes, . . . 1844. 8vo, two volumes, cloth, uncut edges.
Portrait by B. Hall after Thomas Phillips.