Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40350

Call Number

PQ6217.A2 C664 v.22/n.5

Title Page

Tragedia urbana. Beverley :

por otro título El jugador inglés. En cinco actos. Traducida del frances.

Variant Title(s)

Beverley
Jugador inglés

Caption Title

Tragedia urbana

Imprint

[Barcelona] : Con licencia. Barcelona: En la Oficina de Juan Francisco Piferrer, Impresor de S. M.; véndese en su librería administrada Por Juan Sellent., [between 1793 and 1815?]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Language(s) of original

French

Title In Original Language

Béverlei

Physical Description

24 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-C⁴

General Notes

Catchwords: A4v: SCE- ; B4v: mis.
Translation of B.-J. Saurin's Béverlei (1768), according to Lafarga.
Some stage directions given in footnotes. Prose.
Publication date based on printer's period of activity, according to Comas i Güell, and Sellent's period of activity under Piferrer, according to BnF authority record for Sellent.
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon.

Citation Reference

Lafarga, F., ed. El teatro europeo en la España del siglo XVIII., p. 300.
Szmuk, S.E. "A Descriptive Catalog of a Collection of Comedias Sueltas in the Hispanic Society of America." Dissertation, City University of New York, 1985, no. 057.
Comas i Güell, M. La imprenta catalana i els seus protagonistes a l'inici de la societat liberal (1800-1833), p. 283.

Printer's Series Number

Núm. 5.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

No. 6 of 25, in vol. 22 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS VARIAS A. E.

Subject/Genre/Themes

French drama--Translations into Spanish.--18th century.

Genre/Form data

rbgenr--Booksellers' advertisements.
rbprov--NNH--Sammelbands.