The touch-Stone: or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Designed 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 Strollers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, Is occasionally handled. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
- Ralph, James, -1762.
- Date:
- MDCCXXIX. [1729]
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About this work
Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. Crokatt, at the Golden Key opposite to Chancery-Lane, in Fleet-Street, MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical description
[2],xxviii,237,[1]p. ; 120.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC N45850
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.