[Rarebooks] FS: Kemble's 1st ed. copy of John Gay's "The Wife of Bath" London: 1713

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(THEATER) Gay, John. THE WIFE OF BATH. A Comedy. As It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane... London: Bernard Lintott. 1713. 4to. (8),64pp. With the half-title (with a woodcut vignette). Each leaf inlaid. Full red morocco (19th century), neatly rebacked with gilt title on spine. John Philip Kemble's copy. On the title he has written, "First Edition. Collated & Perfect. J. P. K. 1797." With an old auction description from Dec. 10, 1917, pasted onto a blank. With the leather bookplate of Alfred Nathan and the paper bookplate of Harry Bacon Collamore.	$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
Kemble (1757-1823) was one of the greatest Shakespearian actors of his day; he formed a large library of theater and music literature.


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