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Lot 57
Irish theatre.- [Bickerstaffe (Isaac)] The Sultan: or, a peep into the Seraglio. A comedy in two acts As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Crow-Street, rare first edition, Dublin, Printed by M. Mills. No. 135, Capel-Street, 1780.
Hammer Price: £400
Description
Irish theatre.- [Bickerstaffe (Isaac)] The Sultan: or, a peep into the Seraglio. A comedy in two acts As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Crow-Street, first edition, engraved frontispiece, ink stain to C1v and C2r (mostly to inner gutters), final f. with pencil musical annotation verso and detached, occasional spotting or finger-marking, lightly browned, disbound, [ESTC N24997], 8vo, Dublin, Printed by M. Mills. No. 135, Capel-Street, 1780.
⁂ Rare, with only two US copies recorded by ESTC (Rice and UNC). Bickerstaffe (c.1735-c.1812) enjoyed success with his mostly plagarised farces and comic operas (the present work based on 'Solyman le Second' from the 'Contes moraux' of J. F. Marmontel), until he was forced into exile by allegations of sodomy, then a capital offence.
Description
Irish theatre.- [Bickerstaffe (Isaac)] The Sultan: or, a peep into the Seraglio. A comedy in two acts As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Crow-Street, first edition, engraved frontispiece, ink stain to C1v and C2r (mostly to inner gutters), final f. with pencil musical annotation verso and detached, occasional spotting or finger-marking, lightly browned, disbound, [ESTC N24997], 8vo, Dublin, Printed by M. Mills. No. 135, Capel-Street, 1780.
⁂ Rare, with only two US copies recorded by ESTC (Rice and UNC). Bickerstaffe (c.1735-c.1812) enjoyed success with his mostly plagarised farces and comic operas (the present work based on 'Solyman le Second' from the 'Contes moraux' of J. F. Marmontel), until he was forced into exile by allegations of sodomy, then a capital offence.
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