Shakespeare and Elizabethan Plays 29 plays in one volume all Wenman 1777-1779 newly bound in full leather
Shakespeare, William; Beaumont and Fletcher; Dryden, John; Milton, John (et al)
$1,100.00
Place Published: London
Date Published: 1777-1779
Illustrator: b&w engravings
Size: 8vo
Collection of 29 plays, all published by J. Wenman 1777/1778/1779, ten being Shakespeare, the remainder by other notables of the Elizabethan/Restoration/18th-Century; the plays in order are by Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Merry Wives of Windsor); Farquhar (The Recruiting Officer, The Beaux Stratagem, The Constant Couple, The Inconstant or the Way to Win Him); Foote (The Englishman in Paris, The Minor a Comedy, The Orators); Hoadly (The Suspicious Husband); Gay (The Beggar’s Opera); Mrs. Centlivre (The Busy Body); Addison (The Drummer or the Haunted House); George, late Duke of Buckingham (The Rehearsal); Milton (Comus A Masque); Beaumont and Fletcher (Rule a Wife and Have a Wife); Dryden (The Spanish Fryar); Fielding (Don Quixote in England an Opera); Steele (The Conscious Lovers); Vanburgh (The Provoked Wife); Howard (The Committee or The Faithful Irishman); all plays with frontispiece engravings depicting famous actors of the day in performance, lists of Dramatis Personae, and each sub-titled ‘As it is Acted at the Theatres-Royal in Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden’; all printed in double-columns; acquired by this bookseller in a single-volume, with weary boards, and handed on to our bookbinder, who has re-bound in handsome full calf with blind-stamped borders and ornaments to front and rear, 6 compartments to spine with maroon title label and gilt titling, gilt devices, raised bands; condition is generally Good throughout, with uniform tanning to pages, scattered foxing, offset from frontispieces to title pages; the former owner has hand-written a handy Index to rear endpapers (and also done a few random sums).