THE ALCHEMIST: A COMEDY BY BEN JOHNSON 1774

[JOHNSON, Ben (1572-1637)]. The Alchemist. A comedy. With Alterations as Performed at the Theatres. Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by J. Robertson, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774].

First thus. Hardcover. Duodecimo (18cm x 11cm x 1cm). Pp. 91. English text. Engraved frontispiece. Rebound in modern hardback with paper-covered boards, spine title label, new blank endpapers. Condition: Binding secure. Contents nicely preserved, showing some light browning and a few fox spots, without previous ownership markings. Extremely scarce. ESTC N15794.

Notes: Later issued as part of: ’The theatre, tragic & comic’, Edinburgh, 1776.