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(VERMONT). (DRAMA). DODSLEY, ROBERT. The Toy-Shop; Or Sentimental Preceptor. Designed for Instruction and Amusement. Middlebury, [Vt.]: Published by H. Richardson, Copeland & Allen, Printers, 1819. 18mo. 34 pp. Original printed wrappers (stained). Text quite browned and foxed. $100.00

 

   S & S 47840. McCorison 2107. A popular dramatic satire, frequently reprinted. It was given its first performance at Covent Garden in 1735 and an American printing was advertised as early 1750. The earliest extant American edition, however, is apparently 1793.