Title: Five old plays, forming a supplement to the collections of Dodsley and others. Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A.
Description: <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;">5 vols. in 1 8vo. ff. [4], pp. [2], 83, 95, [1], 99, [1] (blank), ff. [2], pp. 75, [3], 80. Original blue boards, printed label of John Porter.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">A reissue of the sheets of the five plays published by Septimus Prowett in 1828 and 1829. The half-title indicates that the book was to be considered as the thirteenth volume of the third edition of ‘Dodsley’s Old Plays,’ and it is frequently catalogued as such.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Contains Thomas Hughes’s Misfortunes of Arthur, Anthony Munday’s The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Chettle’s The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Nathan Field’s A Woman is a Weathercock and his Amends for Ladies. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A17.</span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Contains Thomas Hughes’s Misfortunes of Arthur, Anthony Munday’s The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Chettle’s The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Nathan Field’s A Woman is a Weathercock and his Amends for Ladies.</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;">See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A17.</span><br /></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;"><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/alma991039184899707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>