The anatomist: or, The sham doctor. Written by Mr. Ravenscroft. With The loves of Mars and Venus. A play set to music. Written by Mr. Motteux. As they are acted together at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields.
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- The anatomist: or, The sham doctor. Written by Mr. Ravenscroft. With The loves of Mars and Venus. A play set to music. Written by Mr. Motteux. As they are acted together at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields.
- Sham doctor Loves of Mars and Venus
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London: printed, and are to be sold by R. Baldwin, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick lane, 1697.
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- 1697-1697
- ESTC No.
- R22443
- Grub Street ID
- 98071
- Description
- [8], 39; [9], 30 p. ; 4⁰
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- Signatures: pi? a*? B*-L*?; chi? a? B? ?B-H?.
Part 2, "The loves of Mars & Venus" by Peter Motteux has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. According to its preface it "was written to be inserted into a very short farce written by Mr. Ravenscroft, called The Anatomist or the Sham Doctor".
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- BEWARE: In another earlier edition or issue the signatures for "The anatomist" lack asterisks. VERIFY whether this is another setting of type or a reissue with asterisks added. In the non-asterisk edition the name of the actor playing "Young Mr Gerald" in the Dramatis Persona is given in error as "Mr Hodson" in place of "Hodgson". DFo copy lacks asterisk only in quire a, which does have "Mr Hodson" in the Dramatis Personae. VERIFY edition exists completely lacking asterisks. Because of the differences in the preliminaries of "The loves of Mars & Venus" when issued as part of "The anatomist", it should be easy to determine whether single copies of the 1696 edition were issued separately or were intended to be part of the edition catalogued here