Verlag: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, London, England, 1748
Anbieter: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, USA
Erstausgabe
Leather-bound. First Edition. Octavo. (8 in. x 5 1/4 in.) Contemporary mottled calf. Five raised bands to spine, with gilt lettering, rather faded. Leather cracked and spine label wanting. Front board loose but still attached at all sewn points. Pages supple and fairly bright, with but slight age-tanning. 246 pp; Worldcat finds this work in book form in only 9 institutions world-wide, and none at auction, or currently for sale in the online market. Chetwood remains a prolific, yet star-crossed enigma, who despite many writings, and decades of interesting service as a prompter in the theatre (Drury Lane, among several), was jailed several times for indebtedness, and died destitute. Chetwood was a publisher and bookseller and dramatist In 1748 Chetwood toured Ireland according to the geographical pattern of opposing routes adopted by companies after 1735, the southern tour stopping first in Kilkenny. It is not clear to this writer whether Luckombe actually accompanied Chetwood on his tour through Ireland or if his (purportedly largely plagiarized) "A Tour Through Ireland (1780) might have been the cause of the conflation - or perhaps it twas not a conflation at all and the two "English Gentlemen" actually did engage in a Road Trip together. "The career of Chetwood appears to have been continuously unfortunate. In the dedication of his âGeneral History of the Stage' he says: âTho' my enemies have beat me to the pit (as Brutus said), yet, thank heaven! some few friends have interpos'd and prevented my falling in,'.: (DNB). Binding: Good Only; Interior: Very Good.