The touch-stone: or, Historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Design'd for the improvement of all authors, spectators, and actors of operas, plays, and masquerades. In which every thing antique, or modern, relating to musick, poetry, dancing, pantomimes, chorusses, cat-calls, audiences, judges, criticks, balls, ridottos, assemblies, new oratory, circus, bear-garden, gladiators, prize-fighters, Italian strolers, mountebank stages, cock-pits, puppet-shews, fairs, and publick auctions, is occasionally handled. By a person of some taste and some quality. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
James Ralph (d.1762)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3090527
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xxviii, 237, [3] p. ; 12mo. Running number: 7543. Wanting final blank leaf. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
James Ralph (d.1762)