Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

41025

Call Number

PQ6217.A2C664 v.24/n.8

Title Page

Comedia. El prisionero de guerra, ò Un curioso accidente. :

Es caso sucedido en Holanda.

Variant Title(s)

Prisionero de guerra

Caption Title

Comedia

Imprint

[Madrid] : Con Licencia: Madrid año de 1796. Se hallará en la Librería de Quiroga, calle de la Concepcion Gerónima, junto á la de Barrio Nuevo; en la misma se hallan todas las Comedias y Tragedias modernas, Comedias antiguas, Autos Sacramentales, y al Nacimiento, Saynetes, Entremeses y Tonadillas; por docenas á precios equitativos., [1796]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Language(s) of original

Italian

Title In Original Language

Curioso accidente

Physical Description

34 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-D⁴ E1

General Notes

Catchwords: A4v: de ; B4v: ella ; C4v: á ; D4v: la.
According to Lafarga, this is a translation of Goldoni's Un curioso accidente (1760) by D. Botti and F. del Rey.
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon with reduced price for quantity purchase.

Citation Reference

Lafarga, F., ed. El teatro europeo en la España del siglo XVIII, p. 397-398.
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. 380.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

Based on lack of certain accent marks on p. 34, this seems to be an earlier printing of PQ4695.S5 P75 1796.
No. 8 of 23, in vol. 24 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS VARIAS N. Z.

Subject/Genre/Themes

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

Genre/Form data

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