KOTZEBUE, August von. The Natural Son; a Play … Translated from the German by Anne Plumptre … London: Printed for R. Phillips: sold by H. D. Symonds … Carpenter and Co. … and by all other Booksellers. 1798. 
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8vo (202 × 122 mm) in half-sheets, pp. [4], vii, [1], 83, [1]; complete with the half-title; some light marginal browning, a few marks to the first and final pages; later full sprinkled calf by Root & Son, all edges gilt, lightly rubbed.
First edition of this translation, a rival to Elizabeth Inchbald’s version (also 1798, famous as the play in Mansfield Park). ‘The flattering Reception which the Natural Son, under the altered Title of Lovers’ Vows, has experienced from an English Audience, in an abridged and mutilated State, affords Reason to believe that a complete Translation of so admirable a Drama will entitle itself to a still higher Degree of Public Approbation. The Natural Son, since its first Appearance in Germany, has uniformly ranked among the most favourite Productions of the Pen of its illustrious Author; its Celebrity has long attracted the Notice of the Translator, and a Perusal of it satisfied her, that it was one of those brilliant Dramatic Meteors, whose Lustre ought to be extended from the German to the English Horizon’ (Translator’s Preface). The translator, Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), came under the early influence of William Taylor (1765–1836, ‘the first Englishman in modern times to take his cultural and intellectual bearings from Germany’), and both she and her sister, Annabella, began translating ‘the stimulating new literature’ that was coming out of Germany (Oxford DNB). Morgan 5218 (a starred item); Nicoll III, 298.
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