Hill aaron cumberland (6 risultati)

No Cover. Condizione: Good. xiv+ 54pp + frontispiece engraving. No cover but rest all still well bound together. Over 200 years old but still in nice clean condition with just some light age staining.

Battered, foxed, but essentially solid and clean binding copy. Binding is binding copy.

Hard Bound. Condizione: Good. First Edition Thus. Full leather. 16 mo. Ex-library with an "S" and "v 8" on the spine, a bookplate inside the front cover, a paper slip tipped in and serving as a cardholder inside the back cover, etc., , very nice internals, Good. One plate for each play in nice condition. A playbill for each play. Volume 8 of Bell's British Theatre.…

Hardcover. Condizione: With All Faults. No Dustjacket. 88 +115+106+147 pages. Bottom half of spine MISSING, text block/binding FAILING and BREAKING UP, front boards OFF, needs repair. 5 plays in one volume. No dustjacket. Light brown leather boards, wear to corners, darkened cross-banded and decorated leather to spine which has some surface-cracking, browned/discoloured end-papers, ink name address to each title-page, occasional brown spot to pages and some foxing to frontispieces and illustrations pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Noah Webster's Daughter's Copy - 6 plays bound together c.1810 Zara; A Tragedy By Aaron Hill. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Fair Penitent. A Tragedy By Nicholas Rowe. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Deserted Daughter; A Comedy By Thomas Holcroft. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. First Love; A Comedy. By Richard Cumberland. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Siege of Damascus; A Tragedy. By John Hughes. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Provoked Wife; A Comedy. By Sir John Vanbrugh. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. About 85 pages each. Each play has an engraving or two. Bound in full leather. Title on the spine says, New British Theatre. Published around 1810. First signature is detached, but could easily be reinserted. Endpaper are a mottled orange/red I think they were originally light red or pink, but have aged unevenly. All these plays also say, on the title page, As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This copy with ownership name on the first blank page of Emily Webster Ellsworth. She is the daughter of Noah Webster, of dictionary fame. She married William Ellsworth in 1813 - he went on to become a Congressman and later Governor of Connecticut. Ellsworth was a classmate of Noah Webster at Yale. Mrs Webster Ellsworth's signature, at the top of the front endpaper page, is in a very neat script, as you would expect. Signed by Author(s). …

5 vols bound as 1, 12mo, pp. 92, 85-88; 112; 75, [1]; 106, [2]; 84 + frontispiece for each work. Near-contemporary calf, edges sprinkled in red. Some light spotting. Rubbed, particularly to spine, front joint cracking at foot. Ownership inscription of Mrs James Brown to pastedown, title list to flyleaf in same hand. A collection of five plays, each of which was issued separately, and also sold as part of Bell?s British Theatre. Aaron Hill?s Alzira is based upon Alzire by Voltaire. ESTC N19222; T48990; N15135; N24415; N15112.…