The Indian Exiles. A Comedy in Three Acts.
Rare and modern books
Kotzebue, August Von.
London, T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood, 1800.,
1800
The Indian Exiles. A Comedy in Three Acts.
Rare and modern books
Kotzebue, August Von.
London, T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood, 1800.,
1800
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1800
- Author
- Kotzebue, August Von.
- Publishers
- London, T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood, 1800.
- Keyword
- Literature prior to 1880
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo. (4), 84 pp. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and engraved frontispiece (Thurston del., Anker Smith sc.). Contemporary boards with giltstamped blue spine labels. First English edition of Kotzebue's colonial-themed comedy "Die Indianer in England" (first performed at Reval in 1789 and published in Leipzig the following year). Translated by Benjamin Thompson (1774?-1816), a British professional playwright who was also an unsuccessful agricultural speculator. - Slightly browned due to paper. - OCLC 7051346.
