(THEATER) Pilon Frederick The Fair American A Comic Opera in

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(THEATER.) Pilon, Frederick. The Fair American: A Comic Opera in Three Acts. [4], 9-68 pages. 8vo, disbound; minor foxing. London, 1785

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first complete edition of a play first produced in London in 1782; the songs were published by themselves that year. The plot follows young Angelica, a refugee uprooted from South Carolina by the Revolution. She goes on to marry a British officer, and the closing scene plays to British fantasies of a restored empire: "The first toast after supper shall be 'The union of England and America!' . . . Then would Britain soon behold / Peace return, a pilgrim blest! / And the parent state enfold / All her children to her breast!" Sabin 62861; none of any edition traced at auction since a Dublin edition at Swann, 6 March 1958.