A select collection of old plays. In twelve volumes. Vol I. A new edition
Subtitle: with additional notes and corrections, by the late Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, and the editor
Publisher: Septimus Prowett Thomas White, Printer
Published: 1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">of 12 volumes in 8vo. pp. [4], clxxvi, 308. Half calf. Signed “Gayley. 1890.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Third edition of this selection of early modern English plays, edited by John Payne Collier. Four plays included in earlier editions are omitted, and replaced by others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Content:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Advertisement to the present edition.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Mr. Reed's preface.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Mr. Dodsley's preface.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Historia histrionica / James Wright</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">God's promises / John Bale</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The four P's / John Heywood</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Ferrex and Porrex / Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Damon and Pithias / Richard Edwards.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">New custome. </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991005661789707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>