[Rarebooks] FS: Dryden Aureng-Zebe Ist ed.

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Dryden, John.  AURENG-ZEBE: A TRAGEDY. ACTED AT THE ROYAL THEATRE. 
WRITTEN BY JOHN DRYDEN, SERVANT TO HIS MAJESTY. LICENSED, ROGER 
L'ESTRANGE.  London: Printed by T[homas]. N[ewcomb]. for Henry 
Herringman, at the Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 
1676.  [xii], 86 pp.8vo. Rebound in three quarter modern cloth over 
marbled boards, First edition.  Wing D2245; Macdonald, H. Dryden, 
80a; Pforzheimer, 319.

Dryden's last attempt at heroic tragedy, Aureng-Zebe, or The Great 
Mogul, was first staged in 1675, and then printed in the following 
year. A scarce Dryden title. Last auctioned in 1980 at Christie's. 
Title page professionally renewed with one inch chip to title 
effecting the "G-," small chip to lower corner, final leaf renewed, 
with last 7 lines of page 85 neatly inked in with a matching 
calligraphy to the type, epilogue lacking, tape repairs to inner 
margins of a few leaves, contemporary signature to one page, some 
minor dampstaining to outer edge of a few leaves, the occasional worm 
hole at the margins, endpapers renewed but toned, trimmed a bit 
tightly at the upper margin. But for the missing epilogue, about 
good.  [26250]   $275   

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
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