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The contrast : a comedy / by Royal Tyler ; with an introduction by Thomas J. McKee.

Author/creator Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826
Other author/creatorMcKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew-York : Dunlap Society, 1887.
Description[4], xxxix, [1], 107 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subject(s)
Series Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteArts and Literature.
Local note2012AH56900.
Local noteArts and Literature.
Local note2012AH56900.
General note"One of an edition of one hundred and seventy-five copies printed from type for the Dunlap society in the month of December, 1886."--p. [4], 1st count.
General noteReprint of original edition including t.p.: "The contrast, a comedy ; in five acts : written by a Citizen of the United States ; performed with applause at the theatres in New York, Philadelphia, and Maryland ; and published (under an assignment of the copy-right)--by Thomas Wignell ... Philadelphia : Pritchard & Hall, 1790."
General notePrefixed: "The Dunlap Society" (prospectus, 3 p., 1st count).
General note"The first American play ever performed by a company of professional actors."--Introd.
General noteTitle-vignette.
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 97617.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. xi-xii).

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