Amendments of Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations, &c. from the Old batchelour, Double dealer, Love for love, Mourning bride. By the author of those plays

People / Organizations

• William Congreve (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for J. Tonson at the Judge's Head in Fleet-street, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, 1698.

Publication year

1698

ESTC No.

R18926

Grub Street ID

76737

Description

[4], 80, 71-109, [1] p. ; 8°.

Note

The author of those plays = William Congreve

A reply to: Collier, Jeremy. A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage

With a half-title

The words "Old batchelour, ... Mourning bride" are gathered, on title page, by a left brace

A variant has the preliminary quarter-sheet reprinted and Sig [D6] a cancel. "... the verso of the half-title reads: '[rule] / ADVERTISEMENT. / An Ouersight in reading Superstition / for supposition in Mr. Collier's Book, / p.64. occasion'd a mistake in a small / number of these amendments, which / were first printed off; but in the remain- / der of the Impression, the Remark ground- / ed on that Mistake is omitted, Care being / taken to have that Leaf reprinted. / [rule] /'." In the variant state "a third erratum is added on verso of the title, and a sentence which appears on recto of the cancellandum (p.43) is omitted from the cancellans."--cf. Pforzheimer Catalogue

Title page in two settings: line 2 of Latin quote from Salust has (1) "quem morbo" or (2) "quam morbo". Title page with "quem morbo" has 2 errata on verso; title page with "quam morbo" has 3 errata on verso, i.e. the variant delineated above by Pforzheimer

P.81-119 misnumbered as 71-109 and set in smaller type

Signatures: A]2 B-H]8 I]4

Copy filmed is Huntington Library accession #120487, the sophisticated copy.

Uncontrolled note

In CSmH #120488 the t.p., which is genuine, has 2 errata on verso and D6 is a cancel. Verify that other copies exist with 2 errata on verso of t.p. and with D6 as a cancel