[Rarebooks] fa: FIVE PLAYS 1797-98: M. G. "MONK" LEWIS Thomas Holcroft RICHARD CUMBERLAND &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, October 16. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Thomas Morton: Secrets Worth Knowing; A Comedy, in Five Acts. London: Printed for T. N. Longman, 1798. First edition; [4], 69, [8] pp.; with 5 pp. of publisher's adverts. ESTC T100458. [WITH:] M. G. Lewis: The Castle Spectre: A Drama. In Five Acts. London: Printed for J. Bell, 1798. Fifth edition; vi, [2], 103, [1] pp. ESTC T128898. [WITH:] Richard Cumberland: False Impressions: A Comedy in Five Acts. London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1797. First edition; [4], 74 [2] pp. CBEL II 815; ESTC T35272. [WITH:] [Thomas Holcroft:] He's Much to Blame, A Comedy: in Five Acts. London: Printed for C.G. and J. Robinson, 1798. First edition; 96 pp. ESTC T36173. [WITH:] Thomas Morton: A Cure for the Heart-Ache; A Comedy, in Five Acts. London: Printed for T.N. Longman, 1797. Second edition; 87, [1] pp. ESTC T34492.

Five separate plays, three of them first editions, bound in one volume; 8vo (21.5 cm), in modern boards, printed spine label. Contents with intermittent toning and browning (most noticeable on the title-pages), a few occasional small spots; title-pages with the light (erasable) penciled notes of the late bookseller Peter Howard of Serendipity Books; else quite clean and crisp, firmly bound in a fresh and appealing new binding in the style of the period.