vanbrugh sir john cumberland (8 resultados)

Disbound. Condición: Good. viii+ 56pp + frontispiece engraving, No cover but rest all still well bound together. Over 200 years old but still in nice clean condition with just some light age staining. Some shadowing of engraving to title page.

Disbound. Condición: Good. vi+ 80pp + frontispiece engraving, No cover but rest all still well bound together. Over 200 years old but still in nice clean condition with just some light age staining. Some shadowing of engraving to title page.

No Cover. Condición: Good. ix + 80pp + frontispiece engraving. No cover but rest all still well bound together. Over 200 years old but still in nice clean condition with just some light age staining.

Battered, foxed, but essentially solid and clean binding copy. Binding is binding copy.

Half Leather & Marbled Boards. Condición: Good. Cracked hinges but still well bound together. Occasional minor age staining but generally interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. The British Drama, Volume IX - Every Man in His Humour; Mistake; Brothers; Minor.

Tree Calf. Condición: Good. Printed under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book, Still well bound with wear to extremeties. Interior in nice clean condition. Most of the plays have a single sided engraving. No names or inscriptions. Each play paginated separately. No dates shown but believed to be about 1810. See my other listings for more identically bound volumes in this series. Reduced combined P&P available on request. Picture of this book available.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair / Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. 127+99+117+108 pages. 4 plays in one volume. No dustjacket. Light brown leather boards, wear to corners, darkened cross-banded and decorated leather to spine which has surface fissures and some cracking, small losses to spine-ends, outer hinges cracked, binding strained in places. Browned/discoloured end-papers, ink name/address to each title-page, occasional brown spots to pages and some foxing to frontispieces and illustrations pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Noah Webster's Daughter's Copy - 6 plays bound together c.1810 Zara; A Tragedy By Aaron Hill. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Fair Penitent. A Tragedy By Nicholas Rowe. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Deserted Daughter; A Comedy By Thomas Holcroft. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. First Love; A Comedy. By Richard Cumberland. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Siege of Damascus; A Tragedy. By John Hughes. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. The Provoked Wife; A Comedy. By Sir John Vanbrugh. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. About 85 pages each. Each play has an engraving or two. Bound in full leather. Title on the spine says, New British Theatre. Published around 1810. First signature is detached, but could easily be reinserted. Endpaper are a mottled orange/red I think they were originally light red or pink, but have aged unevenly. All these plays also say, on the title page, As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. This copy with ownership name on the first blank page of Emily Webster Ellsworth. She is the daughter of Noah Webster, of dictionary fame. She married William Ellsworth in 1813 - he went on to become a Congressman and later Governor of Connecticut. Ellsworth was a classmate of Noah Webster at Yale. Mrs Webster Ellsworth's signature, at the top of the front endpaper page, is in a very neat script, as you would expect. Signed by Author(s).