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London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. Title page a little spotted and browned; very good copy.. 8vo, modern brown quarter calf period style, marbled paper boards, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife of James Hook. She is the acknowledged anonymous author of two other plays James Hook was involved with, The Double Disguise and the Irish Lad (both 1784).