- 52
[Gay, John]
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
- A Letter to Mr. John Gay, concerning his late farce, entituled, a comedy. J. Roberts, 1717
- Paper
8vo, FIRST EDITION, disbound, occasional spotting
Literature
ESTC T38172
Catalogue Note
An attack on John Gay's Three Hours after Marriage, describing the play as an "attempt at once to debauch our taste, and corrupt our manners, to play a double game, and palm nonsense and lewdness upon us in the same piece..." The dedication, to the three managers of Drury Lane, is signed with the pseudonym Timothy Drub.