30 Sep 1778:3551 (4/535)
Pennsylvania Evening Post            
PEP.778.064                                                             
30 Sep 1778:3551 (4/535)                                                
The following New Publications, in Literature, are just                 
arrived from London, by the way of Egg Harbour, and are now             
for sale at Bell's book store in Third-Street, Philadelphia.            
Among a great variety of others are the following:                      
Bell's British Theatre, 18 vols. containing ninety of the               
most favorite tragedies and comedies, embellished with a                
curious and valuable set of ninety prints, finely executed              
by the finest masters in Britain, representing some                     
principal performer in the most favorite scene of each play;            
consisting of ninety five dramatic characters, all drawn                
from the life, on purpose for this work, and executed in a              
stile that will hand the subjects down to posterity, with an            
uncommon degree of respect and reputation; likewise to each             
volume is prefixed a grand vignette, on the front title                 
page, beautifully designed and elegantly engraved.                      
Bell's Edition of British Poets, 32 vols.  Nothing short of             
ocular observation can convey a just idea of the beauty of              
this work.                                                              
. . . [4 columns with a list of other books]                            
. . . Shakespear's Works, 8 vols.                                       
. . . English Plays, 5 vols.                                            
. . . Songster's Companion, with all the music, 3 vols.                 
. . .