An essay on the art of acting; in which, the dramatic passions are properly defined and described, with applications of the rules peculiar to each, and selected passages for practice. The Whole SO Treated AS To Afford AN Actor, OR Speaker, Easy Principles For Acquiring A Power To Please AN Audience, And To Give The Intelligent Reader The Clearest Idea Of A Judicious Theatrical Performer. By the late A. Hill, esq; now first revised, and separately published

People / Organizations

• J. Dixwell ("printed for")
• Aaron Hill (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J. Dixwell, No. 148, St. Martin's Lane, near Charing Cross, [1779]

Publication year

1779

ESTC No.

N1843

Grub Street ID

7904

Description

53,[1],2p. ; 8°.

Note

Not to be confused with his poem 'The art of acting'

With a final advertisement leaf

Publication date from MH-H

Newspaper advertisements for Dixwell at 148 St. Martin\U+2019\s Lane appear between 1776-1788. Cf. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers. Earliest dated imprints in ESTC for Dixwell at this address are 1776

Below imprint in square brackets: Price one shilling and six-pence.