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Author	Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Title	The lyar : a comedy in three acts, as it is performed at the Theatre in the Hay-Market / by Samuel Foote, Esq.
Publication Info.	London : printed for W. Lowndes, J. Rivington and Sons, and S. Bladon, in Pater-noster-Row, M DCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Pamphlets	Z-PAM v.412 no.4	IN LIBRARY

Description	70, [2] p. ; 22 cm. (8⁰)
Note	In v. 2 of 'The dramatic works of Samuel Foote, Esq', London, 1788, and [1797].
	Horizontal chain lines.
	"Price one shilling and six-pence" within brackets, below imprint.
	Signatures: [A]⁴ B-I⁴.
	Based on Steele's Lying lover, itself an adaptation of Le Menteur of Pierre Corneille.
	"Dramatis personæ": p. [4].
	Epilogue: p. [71]-[72].
	Head-and tail-pieces, type ornaments; initials.
Indexed In:	ESTC T20736
Note	Library copy is No. 4 in a volume of 4 works bound together. Monogram M.H. stamped on front free end-paper recto. Gift of Capt. Henry Metcalfe; acquisition date stamp on p. [i] of the 1st work (The critic by R. Sheridan): July 2, 1931. Binding: tree calf, blind fillets on edges. ZNS
Genre or Form	Plays -- England -- 18th century.
	Comedies -- England -- 18th century.
	Book prices (Publishing) -- England -- 18th century.
	Type ornaments (Printing) -- England -- 18th century.
	Tail-pieces (Printing) -- England -- 18th century.
	Monograms (Provenance). ZNS
	Stamps (Provenance). ZNS
	Tree calf bindings (Binding) ZNS
Subject	Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684. Menteur. English -- Adaptations.
	Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729. Lying lover -- Adaptations.
	Haymarket Theatre (London, England) -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author	Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684. Menteur.
	Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729. Lying lover.
	Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784, bookseller.
	Bladon, Samuel, d. 1799, bookseller.
	J., F., and C. Rivington (Firm), bookseller.
	Metcalfe, Henry, Captain, donor. ZNS

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