Bell’s British Theatre consisting of the most esteemed English Plays Volume the Nineteenth being the tenth volume of Comedies containing Volpone altered from Ben Jonson, Country Lasses by Mr. C. Johnson, Mistake by Sir John Vanbrugh, The Lady’s Last Stake by Colley Cibber 1778/1780
Bell's British Theatre; Jonson, Ben; Johnson, Charles; Vanbrugh, Sir John; Shirley, James; Cibber, Colley
$250.00
Place Published: London
Date Published: 1780
Illustrator: frontispiece engravings
Size: 16mo
Collection of five plays, being volume 19 in the Bell’s British Theatre (and vol 10 of the comedies); the plays are (please note full title given for Volpone, the remainder containing equivalent sub-titling): Volpone or The Fox a Comedy as altered from Ben Jonson and performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden regulated from the Prompt-Book by permission of the Managers by Mr. Wild Prompter; The Country Lasses (Charles Johnson), The Mistake (Sir John Vanbrugh), The Gamesters (as altered from Shirley), and The Lady’s Last Stake (Colley Cibber); each play with its own title page and facsimile engraving facing, frontispiece engraving for Bell’s British Theatre (total of 6 engravings); all plays dated 1778, with frontispiece engraving dated 1780; period calf boards, with new leather spine with black and maroon title labels and gilt titling, new endpapers; scattered foxing throughout, offset from engravings, title pages and text block tanned, o.w. Good; boards rubbed/scuffed, worn at corners, new leather with very mild scuff marks.