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London : John Bell
Bell's British theatre consisting of the most esteemed English plays ; v. 4. Contents: The Wonder - Rule a wife and have a wife - The Suspicious Husband - The Conscious lovers - The Recruiting officer. 1776
20.0 x 3.5 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1055971
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John Bell was a publisher and newspaper proprietor who was noted for commissioning attractive artwork to accompany his printed texts. His bookshop in the Strand was known as the ‘British Library’ and he was characterised as ‘a mischievous spirit, the very Puck of a bookseller’ by the publisher and editor Charles Knight. Bell’s British Theatre collected 140 plays in twenty-one volumes.
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20.0 x 3.5 cm (book measurement (inventory))
