# Perseus and Andromeda. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Adorn'd with copper-plates

**Slug:** `perseus_and_andromeda_1730`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald (attributed; Lincoln's-Inn-Fields version)  
**Edition / date:** London: printed and sold by Tho. Wood in Little Britain, 1730 (imprint legible). FIRST edition; two copies obtained. (5th ed. 1731 also on archive.org.)

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_perseus-and-andromeda-a_theobald-mr-lewis_1730` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_perseus-and-andromeda-a_theobald-mr-lewis_1730
  - catalogue title: Perseus and Andromeda. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Adorn'd with copper-plates.  1730
  - date field: 1730; images/frames: 27; 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_perseus-and-andromeda-a_theobald-mr-lewis_1730_djvu.txt`
  - note: copy A: BL microfilm, 27 frames
- **archive.org** `perseusandromeda00theo` - https://archive.org/details/perseusandromeda00theo
  - catalogue title: Perseus and Andromeda. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
  - date field: 1730; images/frames: 46; OCR engine: (not stated in metadata; djvu.txt present)
  - digitised from / contributor: Rice University, Fondren Library; publisher: London : Printed and sold by T. Wood
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `perseusandromeda00theo_djvu.txt`
  - note: copy B: Rice University (Fondren) scan, 46 images incl. plates

## Cleaned text(s)
- `perseus_and_andromeda_1730_copyA.clean.txt` - 2,911 words; 94% of text lines pass a dictionary check
- `perseus_and_andromeda_1730_copyB_Rice.clean.txt` - cleaner copy; 2,785 words; 91% 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).