[Rarebooks] FS: 167 British plays with engraved plates (52 vols.) 1791-1806

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(THEATER) BELL’S BRITISH THEATRE [COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES]. London: Printed 
for the Proprietors, Under the Direction of John Bell, British Library. 
1791-1796. 12mo. 46 vols., consisting of 74 comedies and 63 tragedies, each with its 
own title page and a copper engraved frontispiece depicting a scene from the 
play. Cont. green calf over marbled boards, a bit rubbed, spines faded to olive, 
some chipping, mostly minor, at heads of spines (1 volume with a 1” chip). 
Cont. copper engraved bookplates of James Cock bound into all but one of the 
volumes. OFFERED WITH: CAWTHORN’S MINOR BRITISH THEATRE CONSISTING OF THE MOST 
ESTEEMED FARCES AND OPERAS. London: Printed for, and Under the Direction of, 
John Cawthorn. 1806. 12mo. 6 vols. (consisting of 30 plays). Uniformly bound with 
our 46 vols. of “Bell’s British Theatre.” 52 volumes in all.     $2,000.00 
(trade discount allowed)

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