A Select Collection of Old Plays. Corrected and Collated with the old copies, with Notes Critical and Explanatory.

Dodsley, Robert.

Published by London: J. Dodsley, 1780.

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Octavo. Twelve volumes. I: cxxxiii, [iii], 292pp.; II: [iv], 415pp.; III: [iv], 486, [ii]pp.; IV: [vi], 499pp.; V: [iv], 519pp.; VI: [iv], 556pp.; VII: [iv], 526, [ii]pp.; VIII: [iv], 513, [iii]pp.; IX: [iv], 489, [i]pp.; X: [iv], 530, [i]pp.; XI: [iv], 535, [i]pp.; XII: [iv], 436, [xx]pp. I: []2, b8-i8, kk2, A8-S8, T2; II: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Cc8; III: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Gg8, Hh4; IV: []4 (-[]1 blank), A8-Z8, Aa8-Hh8, Ii2; V: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8, Kk4; VI: []2, A8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8, Mm6; VII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8; VIII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Kk8, Ll2 (Ll2 blank); IX: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Hh8, Ii6 (Ii6 blank); X: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8, Mm2 (-Mm2 blank); XI: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ll8, Mm2; XII: []2, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ff8, Gg4. Second edition. Uniformly bound in modern red morocco. With plates. An important collection of early drama, containing work by John Heywood, Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, James Shirley, Shackerley Marmion and John Webster, among many others. Contains 66 plays, including 10 added and 12 removed from the first edition, published in 1744.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Select Collection of Old Plays. Corrected and Collated with the old copies, with Notes Critical and Explanatory.
• Publisher: London: J. Dodsley, 1780.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eighteenth Century Books
  • Fine Bindings
  • Illustrated Books