Author: Smith, Edmund.
Title: Phædra and Hippolitus. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market, by Her Majesty's sworn servants.
Description: London: Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple-gates in Fleetstreet, n.d. [1707]. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [12], 64pp. [-]6, B4-I4. First edition. With the half-title present. Modern light brown half goatskin over marbled boards. ESTC T42205. Worming on lower margin, affecting some words. Based on Racine's Phèdre. This play is further remarkable by virtue of its being the sole genuine classical play of the entire Augustan period. The first edition of Smith's first play. Good.

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