Item Description: | 'The lying lover' is based upon 'Le Menteur' by Pierre Corneille. - Each play has a separate titlepage, pagination and register: 'The conscious lovers', fourth edition, 1733; 'The funeral', sixth edition, 1730; 'The tender husband', fifth edition, 1731; 'The lying lover', fifth edition, 1732. - English Short Title Catalog, T34946. - Price on title page: Where may be had the four plays of Lord Landsdowne, in a neat pocket-volume, price bound 3s. Also the three plays of Ben Johnson; and a catalogue of all the plays that ever were printed in the English tongue, to 1732. Price bound 3s. The catalogue to be had alone, price 6d. - Reproduction of original from British Library |