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The Fairy Queen: An Opera. Represented at the Queen’s-Theatre by Their Majesties Servants.

This copy is untrimmed
In this issue there are [8] preliminary pages: p. [1] t.p., [2] blank, [3] blank, [4] Prologue, [5] Preface, [6] Preface, [7] ‘The names of the persons’, [8] blank
B1r, stage directions: ‘Enter Duke’; G1r, line 4: ‘flower’
Other Copies: 16

1692

Auteur: Settle, Elkanah
Titre: The Fairy Queen: An Opera. Represented at the Queen’s-Theatre by Their Majesties Servants.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head, in Chancery-Lane. Where you may have compleat Sets of Mr. Dryden’s Works in four Volumes; the Plays in the order they were Written.
Date: 1692
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 85
Type: Print
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