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A prologue design'd for the play of Oedipus written in Greek, and perform'd by Mr. Sheridan's scholars, at the King's-Inn's-Hall, on Tuesday the 10th of December, 1723
Description
Imprint: [Dublin, 1723]
First line: To Day before a learn'd Audience comes
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Printed. "There is no proof of Sheridan's authorship of this and the other prologues to his school's plays" (Foxon).
Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).
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