Fenton, Elijah

Mariamne. A Tragedy

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for J. Tonson London 1723 First Edition Acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. 8vo. [202 x 123 x 13 mm]. [4]ff, 75,[4] pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the covers tooled in blind with a double fillet border and outer panel with an ornament at the corners and an inner panel composed of a floral roll. The spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others with a flower tool used twice, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (A little rubbed and some of the gilt eroded from the spine). Some light browning but a very good copy. With the Epilogue leaves. An immensely successful play which, according to Whincop, was a major factor in the revival of the fortunes of the Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre. For some years the theatre had only been maintained by a special subscription, "the Actors were reduced to a more hungry and ragged Condition than a Company of Country-Strolers.... In short, every Body fled from a set of People who looked like real Ghosts, and who appeared in such frightful Shapes as scared even Parsons and Undertakers from their House" - Rennel, Tragi-Comical Reflections, 1725. With the bookplate of Lord Rolle, from the library at Bicton House.

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