The death of Robert Earl of Huntington by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle. With illustrations and notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq.

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The death of Robert Earl of Huntington by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle. With illustrations and notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq.

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

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The death of Robert Earl of Huntington by Anthony Munday and H...Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, John P. (John Payne) (ed.) Collier

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

8vo. f. [1], pp. [3]-99. Signatures: [A]1 B-G8 H2. Original tan printed wrappers. “No. II.” Large paper. The second 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). The present copy is the only recorded perfect copy of the work. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 139; II, A12. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_9870576" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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Publisher	Septimus Prowett Thomas White, Printer
Pages	108
Search language	english

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