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The fashionable friends : a comedy, in five acts / as performed by Their Majesties servants at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane.

Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, author.; Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848, attributed name.
1802
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Title
The fashionable friends : a comedy, in five acts / as performed by Their Majesties servants at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane.
Created/published
London : J. Ridgway, 1802.
Description
85, [3] p. ; 19 cm
Associated name
Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, author.
Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848, attributed name.
Note
Written by Mary Berry and often wrongly ascribed to Viscount Melbourne, who wrote the Epilogue for it. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.; Brit. Mus. Catalogue; Extracts of the journals and correspondence of Miss Berry, v. 1, p. 486, v. 2, p. 194-199; W. T. M. Torrens' Memoirs of Viscount Melbourne, v. 1, p. 42.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [1-3] at end.
Genre/form
Publishers' advertisements.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PR4099.B93 F3 1802 Cage
Folger-specific note
Minor manuscript notes throughout, mostly changes to make the dialogue sound more antiquated.
Folger accession
cs712