A select collection of English plays. In two volumes. ...
Brooke, Henry,1703?-1783
Brooke, Henry,1703?-1783.
Dryden, John,1631-1700.
Rowe, Nicholas,1674-1718.
Smith, Edmund,1672-1710.
Gay, John,1685-1732.
Ramsay, Allan,1686-1758.
Cowley, Abraham,1618-1667.
Murphy, Arthur,1727-1805.
Edinburgh : printed for Alexander Donaldson,
1761.
Volume I. contains: 'The Spanish fryar' by Dryden, 'The Earl of Essex', by Henry Brooke, 'Gustavus Vasa' by Henry Brooke, 'Phaedra and Hippolitus' by Edmund Smith, and 'The ambitious stepmother' by Nicholas Rowe ; Vol. II. contains: 'The Beggar's Opera' and 'Polly' by Gay, 'The way to keep him', 'The guardian', 'The gentle shepherd' by Allan Ramsay.
Each volume has an additional titlepage, engraved, dated 1760.
The plays have separate title pages, pagination and register and were also issued separately.
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