Dryden JohnABAA
Dryden JohnABAA
The Comedies Tragedies and Operas.Now first Collected together and Corrected from the Originals
1701237330London: Tonson Thomas Bennet and Richard Wellington 1701. First Folio edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Edelinck after Keller and extra-illustrated with later full-page frontispiece for the second volume. 6 618; 558 pp. 2 vols. Folio 336 x 196 mm. Bound in modern half brown morocco over brown cloth boards spines lettered in gilt t.e.g. Brief marginal repairs to both title-pages folding portrait backed first few leaves in first volume partially disbound pp 119/120 with tear from corner some stray marks and minor toning throughout upper cover to first volume mostly detached upper joint to second volume with flaking corners rubbed head and tail of spine of both volumes rubbed bookplates of Julius Joleson and Paul Buchet. First Folio edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Edelinck after Keller and extra-illustrated with later full-page frontispiece for the second volume. 6 618; 558 pp. 2 vols. Folio 336 x 196 mm. With extra engraved frontispiece. Dryden's plays were first collected as early as 1682 and many times subsequent though these early editions were simply 4to editions of his plays bound together with a new general title and erratic in terms of quality and completeness. This noble 1701 Tonson folio is not only the the first in this format but the first to aim at comprehensiveness and accuracy. MacDonald 107 a i Tonson, Thomas Bennet and Richard Wellington unknown books
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