An exceedingly rare Blind Tom biographical sketch, published in connection with his appearance in Philadelphia to give a series of concerts over the course of three weeks in September and early October of 1865. Newspaper notices appearing in The Philadelphia Inquirer trace his performances there. On September 4, the paper.....
First edition of this play set in a mythical ancient Egypt. Alexander Dow (d. 1779) spent much of his life serving in the British army in India. According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature in 1768 Dow “joined the fashion for Oriental Tales with Tales....of the Inatulla of Dehli.....
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A sammelband of five 18th century plays, four of them British imprints and one American, bound for Chauncey Whittlesey (1743-1812) of Middletown, Connecticut, whose name appears on the first two endpapers and each title-page. The one American imprint included here, the first American edition of Thomas Morton’s Secrets Worth Knowing.....