Five old plays, forming a supplement to the collections of Dodsley and others. Edited by J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A.

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5 vols. in 1 8vo. ff. [4], pp. [2], 83, 95, [1], 99, [1] (blank), ff. [2], pp. 75, [3], 80. Original blue boards, printed label of John Porter. A reissue of the sheets of the five plays published by Septimus Prowett in 1828 and 1829. The half-title indicates that the book was to be considered as the thirteenth volume of the third edition of ‘Dodsley’s Old Plays,’ and it is frequently catalogued as such. Contains Thomas Hughes’s Misfortunes of Arthur, Anthony Munday’s The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Chettle’s The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Nathan Field’s A Woman is a Weathercock and his Amends for Ladies. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A17. Contains Thomas Hughes’s Misfortunes of Arthur, Anthony Munday’s The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Henry Chettle’s The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Nathan Field’s A Woman is a Weathercock and his Amends for Ladies. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A17. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.