The critic or a tragedy rehearsed a dramatic piece in three acts as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane by, Richard Brinsley Sheridan Esqr

People / Organizations

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for T. Becket, Adelphi, Strand, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]

Publication year

1781

ESTC No.

T773

Grub Street ID

299443

Description

[4],ii,[4],98,[2]p. ; 8°.

Note

"Now properly recognised as of the first or second impression"--W. B. Todd, 'The Book Collector', vol.5, no.2 (1956)

The titlepage is engraved

Prologue by the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick

With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf

P.9 catchword: sneer; no press figure on p.52; on p.84, in the middle of the page, "awkward" is correctly spelt.

Uncontrolled note

This is indistinguishable from the second edition (t000767) without the half-title