The Indian Exiles. A Comedy in Three Acts.
London, T. Maiden for Vernor and Hood, 1800.
8vo. (4), 84 pp. With woodcut printer's device on title-page and engraved frontispiece (Thurston del., Anker Smith sc.). Contemporary boards with giltstamped blue spine labels.
€ 120.00
First English edition of Kotzebue's colonial-themed comedy "Die Indianer in England" (first performed at Reval in 1789 and published in Leipzig the following year). Translated by Benjamin Thompson (1774?-1816), a British professional playwright who was also an unsuccessful agricultural speculator.
Slightly browned due to paper.
References
OCLC 7051346.
