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SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [and JOHN FLETCHER] Double Falshood : Or, the Distrest Lovers. A Play, As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Written Originally By W. Shakespeare; and Now Revised and Adapted To the Stage By Mr. [Lewis] Theobald, 8vo image 1
SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [and JOHN FLETCHER] Double Falshood : Or, the Distrest Lovers. A Play, As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Written Originally By W. Shakespeare; and Now Revised and Adapted To the Stage By Mr. [Lewis] Theobald, 8vo image 2
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SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [and JOHN FLETCHER]
Double Falshood : Or, the Distrest Lovers. A Play, As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Written Originally By W. Shakespeare; and Now Revised and Adapted To the Stage By Mr. [Lewis] Theobald, second edition, J. Watts, 1728; and 2 others

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SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) [and JOHN FLETCHER]

Double Falshood : Or, the Distrest Lovers. A Play, As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Written Originally By W. Shakespeare; and Now Revised and Adapted To the Stage By Mr. [Lewis] Theobald, second edition, half-title (with "Price 1.s. and 6d."), Royal arms on imprimatur page, woodcut ornaments [ESTC T34859; Arden (2010), p.96], J. Watts, 1728; [KELLY (JOHN)] Timon in Love: or, the Innocent Theft, title with piece torn away resulting in loss of 4 letters, preliminaries working loose with frayed edges [ESTC T2468, calling for 4 leaves of advertisements at end, this copy with 3 leaves of advertisements], J. Watts, 1733; The Rake's Progress; or the Humours of Drury-Lane, title cropped with loss of final lines of imprint [ESTC T154210], J. Chettwood, [1735], 3 works bound in 1 vol., the "Shakespeare" bound second, some foxing throughout, titles of the three works written in an early hand inside the upper cover, contemporary calf, rubbed with some abrasions, 8vo

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Second edition, issued by the same publisher in the same year as the first edition, of a play believed to be based on a lost work by Shakespeare and Fletcher, retaining the same type setting but without the press figures, and with the preliminaries reset.

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