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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good condition, limited numbered edition (44/1000) octavo, blue cloth, some bleach splashes and sunning to front and rear, spine sunned to brown, titles in black on label across spine, browning to end papers, internally clean and bright, previous ownership on front free end paper, xlvi plus 400 pages. [QP}.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b Chit-Chat: a Comedy in five acts [and in prose].br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Killigrew, Thomas; br/b/b 1719.br/b/b 8º.br/b/b 643.g.15.(11.)br/.

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First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange and light brown chevron patterned paper covered boards, cream, red and black title and author lettering label to the light brown cloth spine, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains [xlvi] 400 printed pages of text. Hand written number 354 of 1000 Limited Edition copies. Age tanning to the closed text block edges. Very Good condition book in scarce Good condition dust wrapper with age tanning to the spine and edges, not price clipped, 15s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. From the private library of William Leigh, General Manager of The Old Vic, London, and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper 'William Leigh'. Member of the P.B.F.A. PLAYS (Theatre Performance).

First edition. Octavo. Twentieth-century half calf in period style over marbled boards. The spine with five raised bands and morocco title label lettered in gilt. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents with some occasional scholarly annotations in pencil to page margins, the odd minor crease to the top corner of a handful of pages, a pinprick hole to the title page, light scattered foxing and a little browning to the margins of the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order. The first edition of this collection of stories and essays, most notable for its inclusion of an important early Australian imaginary voyage - "The Fortunate Shipwreck, or a Description of New Athens" - a castaway narrative detailing the discovery of a utopian society on the southern coast of the Terra Australis, published just one year after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Taking the form of a series of letters, the work traces the experiences of the fictional English adventurer Maurice Williams after his chance arrival on the Australian continent following a shipwreck. Once ashore, he discovers a utopian society founded by ancient Greeks, who had themselves travelled for three years across desert and ocean in order to realise their "New Athens" in "Terra Australis incognita" (Country of the South). As Williams explains, after their arrival, the Greeks had peacefully integrated with the original inhabitants (those who "may properly be call'd the Aborigines of the place") and established a new society free from the manifold follies of contemporary Europe. In the tradition of utopian literature, as established by Thomas More's seminal 1516 work, Williams describes in detail the architecture and administration of the great Greek-Australian city, its politics and laws and the customs and manners of its inhabitants. He then goes on to discuss the way in which he and his companions introduce the New Athenians to English poetry, the art of printing, the manufacture of gunpowder and the construction of war ships, apparently to the great benefit of the latter. In addition to its early Australian setting, the narrative also notably contains the first reference to the American territory of "Carolina" in fiction, as Williams, after having been caught in yet another violent storm on his return from New Athens, finds himself "very well pleas'd" to be able to get ashore on Carolina's cost, knowing that he was "pretty secure of finding a passage to Old England". The main contributor to the collection was the dramatist Thomas Killigrew the younger (1657-1719), although Charles Gildon, recorded by CBEL as the editor, may be the author of the second imaginary voyage. Chief amongst the work's other contents are: "A Voyage to the Mountains of the Moon under the Æquator", "Mahomet no Imposter, written in Arabick by Abdulla Mahumed Omar" (a defence of Islam purportedly written by a Muslim), "Alberoni, or a Vindication of that Cardinal", "The Secret History of the Amours of Don Alonzo", "The Garden of Adonis" and "An Account of Bad and Good Women, Ancient and Modern". Scarce in commerce. [Grove, Imaginary Voyages, p.234; ESTC T117537]. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Half title, final ad. leaf. Disbound. ESTC T30602; but this copy ends with a 2-page list of 'Books Printed for Bernard Lintot' in place of the Epilogue. FIRST EDITION. The epilogue, not present here as in many copies, may have been added as an inserted leaf to the last signature (F).