BEHN APHRA The Luckey Chance or an Aldermans Bargain A Comed

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BEHN, APHRA. The Luckey Chance, or an Alderman's Bargain. A Comedy. [12], 69, [2] pages. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 black calf, artlessly rebacked; contents browned and dampstained, title torn in a few places and mounted, with ink blots and soiling, trimmed in blank upper and lower margins, lower outer corner of B1 restored not impairing legibility, ink stain in upper outer corner of last several leaves obscuring a few words on the last leaf. London: R. H. for W. Canning, 1687

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first edition of a late sex comedy by Behn, "now considered one of her best" (ODNB), first performed in 1686, just 3 years before her death. The plot concerns the intrigues and complications surrounding the impending marriage of the elderly Sir Feeble Fainwou'd to the "young and vertuous" Leticia. Wing B1744.