Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays; (Modern Library, #94.2)

This Modern Library edition includes an assortment of plays from the Elizabethan period: Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Marlowe, Shoemaker's Holiday by Dekker, Woman Killed with Kindness by Heywood, Volpone by Jonson, Maid's Tragedy by Beaumont and Fletcher, Duchess of Malfi by Webster, New Way to Pay Old Debts by Massinger, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by Ford. Edited, and with an introduction by Esther Cloudman Dunn. --- In Toledano spine 7 / brown balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover & spine lettering & decorations / maroon topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style g / verso lists 246 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1937 (though 1932 date appears in the book). ML #94.2. --- With reading creases to spine, volume is otherwise clean, unmarked and tightly-bound. Fragile dust jacket with original $.95 flap price, chipping and small tears along edges else intact, and in removable mylar protector.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xvi, 721, (6, ads) pages.