Thomas Morton Americas.- Morton (Thomas) Columbus: or, a world discovered. An historical play. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, first edition, final epilogue f., lacking half-title, a few pencil markings, epilogue f. with verso soiled and some creasing, occasional spotting or light staining, water-stained at foot, lightly browned, disbound, 8vo, Printed for W.Miller, 1792. ⁂ First play in English about Columbus. The introduction informs us that the spectator or reader 'will find the manners and customs of Mexico and Peru introduced, as appertaining to the first discovered natives of the western world.'.

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