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Miscellanea tragica [manuscript] : Theatrical index of Sentiments & descriptions, ca. 1730.

Harte, Walter, 1709-1774, author.; Clinch, George, 1860-1921, former owner.
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Title
Miscellanea tragica [manuscript] : Theatrical index of Sentiments & descriptions, ca. 1730.
Description
231 leaves ; 20 x 16 cm
Associated name
Harte, Walter, 1709-1774, author.
Clinch, George, 1860-1921, former owner.
Scope and content
By Walter Harte. A commonplace book [Vol. 7 in same series] containing extracts from Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Lee, D'avenant, Ben Jonson, Dryden and other dramatists arranged under topics which are indexed. Contains also Dryden's Essay on Tragedy. Two letters of Saintsbury to [George Clinch] regarding this ms are inserted.
Note
See Scott and Saintsbury's edition of Dryden's Works, vol. XV, p. 379.

Foliation includes some blank leaves, pus a number of leaves laid in or inserted.

Includes index.
Binding information
Original binding (disintegrated) replaced with half black morocco (Folger 1952).
Provenance
Autograph of Harte (1726) and his bookplate.
Obtained by H.C. Folger from E. Williams of Hove, 1922.
G (?) C[linch] 1885, MS.
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Commonplace books.
Letters (correspondence)

Call number
M.a.47
Folger accession
cs1078

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