New Operas, with comical Stories, and Poems, on several occasions, never before printed, being the remaining pieces, written by Mr D
A 1721 London collection of Thomas D'Urfey's librettos, comic tales and occasional verse, gathered late in the playwright's career for subscribers among the capital's theatre and song public. The plates are printers' ornaments rather than scenes: symmetrical headpieces and tailpieces of scrolling acanthus, trumpeting putti, squirrels, grotesque birds, flower baskets and an oval portrait medallion, usable as rules, dividers, borders and small spot motifs.
