The tragedy of tragedies;
or, The life and death of Tom Thumb the Great;
with the annotations of H. Seriblerus Secundus, Henry Fielding; ed.by James T. Hillhouse.

Description

Main Author

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

Related Names

Hillhouse, James Theodore, 1890-1956.

Language(s)

English

Published

New Haven, Yale university press; etc., etc., 1918

Note

Photocopy.
Indicates 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 thired, fourth and fifth editions."--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.

Physical Description

viii p., 2 1., 223 p. incl. 1 illus., 2 facsim. front. 23 cm.

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