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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 4 volumes only, not the complete set. 32mo. Half-leather, 1 board detached, rubbing. Plays include: The Orphan of China, Every Man in his Humour, The Recruiting Officer, The Mayor of Garratt, A New Way to pay Old Debts, The Duke of Milan, The Orphan; or, the Unhappy Marriage, The Recruiting Sergeant, The Double Gallant, Which is the Man?, The Earl of Warwick, The Virgin Unmasked, The Way of the World, Edward the Black Prince; or, the Battle of Poictiers, Hit or Miss!, The Miser, Polly Honeycombe, The Earl of Essex, Lady Jane Grey, The Sultan; or, a Peep into the Seraglio, The Maid of the Oaks, Twenty Per Cent, The Merchant of Bruges, The Tender Husband, The Constant Couple, My Spouse and I, &c.

Kl.-8° (13 x 9 cm); full leather with gilt title on spine; book covers with waffle pattern and gilt lines; marbled edges - The volume contains a collection of plays "as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent Garden; printed, under the Authority of the Manages, from the Prompt-Books": 1) The Brothers; a Comedy, in five Acts by Richard Cumberland; 54 p.; 2) The Inconstant; A Comedy in five Acts, by George Farquhar; 46 p.; 3) The Road to Ruin; a Comedy, in five Acts, by Thomas Holcroft, 64 p.; 4) The Constant Couple, or, A Trip to the Jubilee; a Comedy, in five Acts by George Farquhar, Esq., 60 p. (publishing date on title page: 1814); 5) The Irish Widow; A Farce, in two Acts, by David Garrick, 38 p.; 6) The Padlock; a Comic Opera, in two Acts, by Isaac Bickerstaff; 32 p.; 7) Three Weeks after Marriage; a Comedy, in two Acts, by Arthur Murphy, 31 p. - Appendix: The Nightingale Club; or, a Droll Fellow`s Companion, being an Admirable Collection of New, Original, and Eccentric Comic Songs, adapted for that Description of Singers who want Taste, Voice, and Ears. Dublin: Printed by J. Charles, 57, Mary-street, n.y., 45 p. - Book covers a little rubbed and bumped; ex-libris with coat of arms and inscription "Pieux quoique Preux" and old hand-written owner`s name on inner cover. Each play has its own engraving. Some browning and foxing throughout, title of "The Brothers" with name scribbled over the page, also quite a few (and some picturesque) hand-written names or remarks throughout. On the whole, in good condition. B/F2 - Please ask for detailed information in English / Demandez des détails en francais s.v.p. - Bitte beachten: Die Bearbeitung von Bestellungen ist erst ab dem 02.05. 2024 wieder möglich! Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. Roach's Edition. 16mo. 8 volumes containing 30 plays with separate title-page and pagination, 28 with an engraved frontispiece, 28 printed by J. Roach at either Russell-Court/Russel-Court or Woburn-Street with "Roach's Edition" at head of title-page, 1 published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd, and 1 printed in Dublin "for the Booksellers." Full tree-calf, gilt-stamped maroon leather spine labels. Contemporary ink signature to front blank in each volume, first four volumes with ink date of 1814. Covers scuffed and rubbed, some tanning, foxing and offsetting to text, some text pages and plates trimmed at lower edge, vol. 3 hinge between plate and title-page of "Isabella" cracked though tight and holding. Overall, a very good, scarce set of early Regency theatricals. Contents include: Thomas Otway - Venice Preserved, n.d.; The Rev. Henry Bate - The Flitch of Bacon, 1808; T. Knight - The Honest Thieves, 1797; Arthur Murphy - The Citizen, n.d.; George Lillo - George Barnwell, n.d. [1813?]; Mrs. Centlivre - A Bold Stroke for a Wife, 1806; Charles Coffey - The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphosed, 1808; Sir John Vanbrugh - Lovers' Quarrels, or Like Master, Like Man, 1806; [???] Artaxerxes. An English Opera, n.d. (without frontispiece); [Thomas Southerne] - Isabella or The Fatal Marriage, [1811]; Kane O'Hara - Midas. An English Burletta, n.d. [1802]; David Garrick - Bon Ton or High Life Above the Stairs, 1811; Shakespeare - Othello, n.d [1803]; Isaac Bickerstaff - Love in a Village, 1807; Mrs. Brooke - Rosina, n.d. [1816]; Henry Fielding - Tom Thumb, A Burlesque Tragedy, 1811; [???] The Tailors. A Tragedy for Warm Weather, n.d. [frontispiece dated 1805]; Mr. Bickerstaff - The Hypocrite, A Comedy Altered from C. Cibber, 1811; Beaumont & Fletcher - Rule A Wife & Have A Wife, 1808; Arthur Murphy - Three Weeks After Marriage, 1811; George Colman - The Jealous Wife, 1807; G. Colman & David Garrick - The Clandestine Marriage, n.d. [without frontispiece]; A. Murphy - The Way to Keep Him, 1807; R.B. Sheridan - A Trip to Scarborough, 1811; [Sheridan] - The School for Scandal, Dublin, 1800; Sheridan - The Rivals, 1811; Samuel Foote - The Mayor of Garratt, 1809; Edward Young - The Revenge, n.d. [frontispiece dated 1805]; A. Murphy - All In The Wrong, 1808; George Farquhar - The Beaux Stratagem, 1811. James (or John) Roach was a bookseller and compiler who kept a shop in Drury Lane near the Theatre Royal. His bookshop on Drury Lane stocked everything from children's anthologies to salacious prints, and he is credited with producing one of the first part-publications - a collection of poetry published over two years. He published an infamous pamphlet entitled Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (a notorious catalogue of courtesans and their various specialties) which landed him in prison for several months. However, with his new found notoriety, he released a selection of theatre books which sold very well.