collection of the best English plays.
Contributors: Fife, William Duff, Earl, 1697-1763 (bookplate)
Publisher: Johnson
Published: 1711
Place of publication: The Hague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: English drama -- Collections
Notes: RBSC copy: With the armorial bookplate of the Right Hon.ble the Lord Bracco [subsequently Earl Fife; Franks 9199].
Table of contents: value: Vol. 1. - Shakespear, William - Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet; Othello.-  Vol. 2. - Shakespear, Will. - K. Henry IV [and] S.J. Falstaf; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Tempest; or, Enchanted island; The Jew of Venice.-  Vol. 5. - Otway, Tho. - The orphan; Venice preserved; Southerne, Tho. - Oroonoke; Trappe, J. - Abra-mule.-  Vol. 6. - Etherege, (Sir) George - She wou'd if she cou'd; The man of mode; Buckingham, George, Duke of. - The rehearsal; The chances.-  Vol. 7. - Congreve, W. - The old batchelour; The double-dealer; Love for Love; The way of the world.-  Vol. 8. - Congreve, W. - The mouning bride; Smith, Edmund - Phaedra and Hippolitus; Turke, Samuel - Adventures of five hours; Wycherley, W. - The plain-dealer.-  Vol. 11. - Addison, J. - Cato; Philips, A. - The distrest mother; Johnson, Ben - Volpone; or, the fox; Shakespear, Wil. and since altered by Tho. Shadwell - The history of Timon of Athens, the man-hater.- Vol. 12. - Cibber, C. - The non-juror; Vanbrug, John - The relapse; or virtue in danger; Rowe, N. - The tragedy of Jane Shore; The tragedy of the Lady Jane Gray.