Notes of George Ashby on Select collection of old plays, 1780, by Robert Dodsley: [manuscript],: ca. 1790.

Notes of George Ashby on Select collection of old plays, 1780, by Robert Dodsley [manuscript], ca. 1790.

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Title

Notes of George Ashby on Select collection of old plays, 1780, by Robert Dodsley [manuscript], ca. 1790.

Description

103 leaves ; 20 x 16 cm

Associated name

Scope and content

Brief explanatory notes on words and phrases, with some discussion of dates, stage history, and publication. In Ashby's autograph.

Note

Notes on the plays contained in the first five volumes of I. Reed's (Dodsley's) Select collection of old plays, 1780.

Binding information

Original maroon calf.

Provenance

Bookplate of F.W. Cosens. "From the W.J. Thomas sale." "Purchases from his [Ashby's] library by George Reading Leathes."

Genre/form

Call number

D.a.11

Folger accession

cs39