Pizarro; a tragedy, in five acts; as performed at the theatre royal in Drury-Lane: taken from the german drama of kotzebue; and adapted to the english stage.
London.
Printed for James Ridgway, 1799.
First edition.
8vo.
[8], 76pp, [4]. Without two terminal advertisement leaves. Final line of Act 4 [p. 64] reads: "No!---thought and memory are my Hell.", a variant edition reads: "No living---thought and memory are my Hell." Recent plain paper wrappers. Slight chipping to spine. Title-page a trifle dust-soiled and working loose, small marginal hole to G3, very light damp-staining to latter half of text-block.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's (1751-1816) remarkably popular drama, an adaptation of numerous translations of August von Kotzebue's Die Spanien in Peru, which had premiered on 24th May 1799.
ESTC T58786.
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref: 14966
