KOTZEBUE, August von. Pizarro; a Tragedy, in five Acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane: taken from the German Drama of Kotzebue; and adapted to the English Stage by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. London: Printed for James Ridgway … 1799. 
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8vo (209 × 130 mm) in half-sheets, pp. [8], 76, [4]; some light foxing towards the beginning and the end, and a little offsetting elsewhere; disbound; early ink ownership inscription of Peter Speirs.
First edition of this bestselling English version of Die Spanier in Peru. There were two issues, on ordinary paper (sold at 2s 6d), and a ‘Superior Edition, on fine wove Paper, hot-pressed’, for 5s. The paper here is wove. ‘Evidence of differing press figures and broken “p” in “hot-pressed” in last line on titlepage [as here] suggests copies made up from mixed sheets’ (ESTC). With the reading ‘No! thought and memory are my Hell’ (as opposed to ‘no living! thought and memory …’) on p. 64. There were no less than seven English translations of this play; Sheridan’s was the most popular, and went through at least twenty editions within a year, in London, Dublin, Cork, Belfast, New York, Charlestown, and Philadelphia. ‘On the stage it drew crowded houses for sixty-seven nights at Drury Lane in the first season, afterwards at other London theatres as well, and soon in the provinces’ (Stockley, p. 181). Williams notes the play ‘was such a success that it brought the theatre in “at least £15,000 during its first season.”’ Morgan 5305; Sabin 80340 (erroneously calling for two plates); Nicoll III, 306; Williams, p. 234.
200,- EUR
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Sachgebiete: Literatur bis ca. 1900, Südamerika, Theater
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