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The tragedy of Zara : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants.

Title: The tragedy of Zara : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants.
Author: Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Publication: London : Printed for J. Watts, at the printing-office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1736.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Fielding M57 1733	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KGV (Voltaire. Zaire. English. 1736) 01-141	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

[16], 69, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 20 cm. (8vo)

Subject

Crusades > Seventh, 1248-1250 > Drama

Note

A translation and adaptation of Voltaire's Zaïre by Aaron Hill, who signed the dedication.
Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁴. Leaf E2 signed "H2."
Pages 50-51 misnumbered 66-67; p. 54-55 misnumbered 70-71; p. 58-59 misnumbered 74-75; p. 62-63 misnumbered 78-79.
Title page printed in red and black.
Illustrations: 1 print : engraving ; full-page. Signed: G. Vander Gucht inv., sculp.
Woodcut t.p. ornament; ornamental head- and tailpieces.
"Prologue, written by Colley Cibber, Esq.": p. [14-15] (1st group).
Publisher's advertisements: p. [72].

Indexed In (note)

ESTC (RLIN)
Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032)
Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteeth century 8 (1959): 9-121)

Provenance (note)

Martin J. Gross Collection (copy in *KGV); William Rees-Mogg (copy in Berg).

Call Number

Berg Coll Fielding M57 1733

OCLC

35811413
NYPG754815298-B

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Title

The tragedy of Zara : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants.

Imprint

London : Printed for J. Watts, at the printing-office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1736.

Indexed In:

ESTC (RLIN) T51556

Rousseau, A.M. Editions anglaises de Voltaire. (In his L'Angleterre et Voltaire, p. 976-1032), 401

Evans, H.B. English Voltaire bib. (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteeth century 8 (1959): 9-121), 544

Provenance

Martin J. Gross Collection (copy in *KGV); William Rees-Mogg (copy in Berg).

Local Note

Leaf [A1] (blank?) wanting.

With (copy in Berg): Fielding, Henry. The miser. London, 1733. Bound together subsequent to publication.

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Added Author

Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.

Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.

Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776. Engraver

Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Fielding M57 1733 Bound with: Fielding, Henry. The miser. London, 1733.

*KGV (Voltaire. Zaire. English. 1736) 01-141

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