The tragedy of tragedies;
or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great; with the annotations of H. Scriblerus Secundus,
by Henry Fielding; ed. by James T. Hillhouse.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] 1918.
- Note
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Appendices: A. The battle of the poets [a new act interpolated, 1730, in "Tom Thumb," published separately and anonymously but attributed to Fielding]--B. Adaptations.
Includes text of "Tom Thumb" (p. [41]-73) based on the first (1730) and second editions. This was enlarged in 1731 into "The tragedy of tragedies." "The text of The tragedy of tragedies [p. 75-144] is a literal reprint of the edition of 1731 and has been collated with a later impression of 1731, and with the third, fourth and fifth editions."--Pref.
- Physical Description
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viii p., 2 l., 223 p.
incl. 1 illus., 2 facsim. front.
23 cm.
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