Passages selected by distinguished personages, on the great literary trial of Vortigern and Rowena; a comi-tragedy.

People / Organizations

• H. Bate Dudley (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by H. Brown, for J. Ridgway, [1796?-98?] Fifth edition.; ..

Added name

Dudley, Mary Bate.

Publication year

1796-1798

ESTC No.

T138273

Grub Street ID

186144

Description

v.1-3 ; 8°.

Note

Dedication signed: Ralph Register, i.e. Sir Henry Bate Dudley and Mary Dudley, his wife

With a half-title

A satire on the leading public characters of the day in a series of passages professing to be quotations from William Ireland's play; it originally appeared from time to time in the 'Morning herald' and was written by Dudley and his wife (D.N.B.)

Preface to vol. 1 dated: Oct. 5, 1795; dedication in vol. 2 dated: Die Veneris 12]0, 1796; preface to vol. 3 dated: Die Martis 11]0, 1798.

Uncontrolled note

Watermark; 1795. Not a reissue of the 3rd. ed