The downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington. By Anthony Munday. With illustrations and notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq.

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The downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington. By Anthony Munday. With illustrations and notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq.

Anthony Munday, John P. (John Payne) (ed.) Collier

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Anthony Munday, John P. (John Payne) (ed.) CollierPublished 1828

8vo. pp. 2, 95. Signatures: [A]1 B-G8. Original tan printed wrappers. The front wrapper headed ‘No. 1’, ‘Large Paper, 3s. 6d.’, and ‘A Series of Old Plays: now for the first time reprinted, uniform with the last edition of Dodsley’s Collection’; the rear wrapper bearing a ‘Prospectus’ for a long series of play reprints to be issued in ‘monthly numbers’, of which the projected first eight are named. The first of five plays issued by Prowett as a ‘Supplement to Dodsley,’ a continuation of an anthology of pre-Restoration English drama known as ‘Dodsley’s Old Plays,’ edited by Robert Dodsley (1703-1764) and re-edited by Collier. Each of the ‘Five Old Plays’ were edited for the first time and published in separate fascicles by Prowett in 1828-1829, extending to only five plays before ‘the publisher could not afford to go on’ (see Collier’s note in his own set, now British Library 11775.bbb.5). The sheets were then sold to William Pickering, who canceled the Prowett titles (or not, erratically), added a four-leaf prefatory gathering with a new general title and a half-title designating the book ‘Volume XIII’ [of the Dodsley collection], and reissued the five texts in one volume, on both large and small paper, titled Five Old Plays Forming a Supplement to Dodsley (1833, see Bib# 4117100/Fr# 922 in this collection). See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 139; II, A11. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_9870575" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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Publisher	Septimus Prowett Thomas White, Printer
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