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The contrast : a comedy in five acts
Title
The contrast : a comedy in five acts / by Royall Tyler ; with a history of George Washington's copy by James Benjamin Wilbur.
Publication
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.
Manufacture
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. : The Riverside Press
Physical Description
xxxviii, 120 pages, 1 leaf of plates : 1 color illustration, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Za T971 790c: This is copy number 167.
BEIN Tanselle Z72 0006: In case, as issued. This copy is number 92. Title on spine includes "Wilbur edition". Accompanied by: article about the book by Philip Brooks from the October 8, 1933 New York Times attached to the free front endpaper.
Notes
Contains a facsimile, slightly reduced, of the title page of Washington's signed copy, Philadelphia, 1790.
"Two hundred and seventy-five copies of this book, of which two hundred and fifty are for sale, were printed at the Riverside press in Cambridge, Massachusetts"--Limitation statement on unnumbered page at end.
Other formats
Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.
Online version: Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826. Contrast. Boston; New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1920
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
"List of works of Royall Tyler": pages 118-120.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
History.
Also listed under
Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.
Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
United States Massachusetts Boston.
United States New York (State) New York.
United States Massachusetts Cambridge.
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