| Item Description: | A reissue of the 1730 fifth edition, with a cancel titlepage. - Edition statement from half-title. - English Short Title Catalog, T145868. - Includes: 'A defence of the Short view of the profaneness and immorality of the English stage', 'A second defence of the Short view of the prophaneness and immorality of the English stage' and 'A farther vindication of the Short view'. - Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 2528. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The cancel title was printed by William Bowyer, who also printed the rest of the edition (in 1726); copies were issued with the date 1728, for Strahan, Mears, and Williamson (N36902), and 1730, for Strahan, Williamson, and Osborne (T145867). - With three final advertisement pages for George Strahan, W. Mears and Richard Williamson |
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