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Lacking Gimcrack
Feb. 17th, 2011 07:32 pmWhy is it that, although Thomas Shadwell's play The Virtuoso was first produced 335 years ago, no free copy appears to be available on the Web?
I am curious to read it-- the virtuosi are an intriguing band of enthusiasts about whom I have learned only recently-- but I will have to locate a library that holds it.
Google Books has scanned various editions, but none is available in entirety.
At least one POD-shark company seems to have an edition, which suggests that a public-domain version is lying around somewhere. But I haven't found it.
(The existence of the Print-On-Demand version complicates the matter of paying money for a decent used copy. One would want to select carefully to avoid paying for an OCR'ed horror.)
I am curious to read it-- the virtuosi are an intriguing band of enthusiasts about whom I have learned only recently-- but I will have to locate a library that holds it.
Google Books has scanned various editions, but none is available in entirety.
At least one POD-shark company seems to have an edition, which suggests that a public-domain version is lying around somewhere. But I haven't found it.
(The existence of the Print-On-Demand version complicates the matter of paying money for a decent used copy. One would want to select carefully to avoid paying for an OCR'ed horror.)
