The gentleman dancing-master : a comedy : as it is acted by Their Majesties Servants

Wycherley, William, 1640-1716, Herringman, Henry, -1704, bookseller, Dring, Thomas, -1695, bookseller, Bentley, Richard, -1697, bookseller, Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller, Bennet, Thomas, -1706, bookseller, Saunders, Francis, active 1684-1699, bookseller, Daly, Augustin, 1838-1899, former owner. MB, Jenks, D. former owner. MB · 1693 · London : Printed for H. Herringman, and sold by T. Dring, R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet · 2 pictures

The Gentleman Dancing-Master is a 1693 comedy by William Wycherley, printed in London for the booksellers Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring and their partners, for playgoers and readers of the stage. Its pictures are small and restrained: an ornamental Boston Public Library seal with laurel wreath and Latin motto, and a manuscript page with a cartouche shield, crossed-sword crest, and handwritten ownership notes. A designer could draw on the laurel border, the classical figures, and the hand-lettered annotations for period-feel typography and heraldic framing.

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