The touch-Stone or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Design'd for the Improvement of all Authors, Spectators, and Actors of Operas, Plays, and Masquerades. In which every thing antique, or modern, relating to Musick, Poetry, Dancing, Pantomimes, Chorusses, Cat-Calls, Audiences, Judges, Criticks, Balls, Ridottos, Assemblies, New Oratory, Circus, Bear-Garden, Gladiators, Prize-Fighters, Italian Strolers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, is occasionally handled. By a person of some taste and some quality. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
1728, MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T140548. - Epistle dedicatory signed: A. Princock, i.e. James Ralph. - Re-issued in 1731 as 'The taste of the town'. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - With a half-title |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([2],xxviii,237,[1]p) 12° |