# Orpheus and Eurydice. An opera. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Set to musick by John-Frederick Lampe

**Slug:** `orpheus_and_eurydice_1740`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for J. Watts (per ESTC), 1739 [i.e. Feb. 1740 N.S.] and 1740. Both the 1739-dated first edition and the 1740 edition obtained.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_orpheus-and-eurydice-an_theobald-mr-lewis_1739` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_orpheus-and-eurydice-an_theobald-mr-lewis_1739
  - catalogue title: Orpheus and Eurydice; an opera. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Set to musick by Mr. John-Frederick Lampe.  1739
  - date field: 1739; images/frames: 29; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313517-32', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_orpheus-and-eurydice-an_theobald-mr-lewis_1739_djvu.txt`
  - note: 1739-dated edition, 29 frames
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_orpheus-and-eurydice-an_theobald-mr-lewis_1740` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_orpheus-and-eurydice-an_theobald-mr-lewis_1740
  - catalogue title: Orpheus and Eurydice. An opera. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Set to musick by John-Frederick Lampe.  1740
  - date field: 1740; images/frames: 21; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313305-48', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_orpheus-and-eurydice-an_theobald-mr-lewis_1740_djvu.txt`
  - note: 1740 edition, 21 frames

## Cleaned text(s)
- `orpheus_and_eurydice_1739.clean.txt` - 2,576 words; 90% of text lines pass a dictionary check
- `orpheus_and_eurydice_1740.clean.txt` - 2,912 words; 93% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Complete.

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
1777 edition also on archive.org.