| Item Description: | Each volume has an additional titlepage, engraved, dated 1760. - English Short Title Catalog, T216862. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The plays have separate titlepages, pagination and register and were also issued separately. - Volume I contains: 'The Spanish fryar' by Dryden, 'The Earl of Essex', by Henry Brooke, 'Gustavus Vasa' by Henry Brooke, 'Phædra and Hippolitus' by Edmund Smith, and 'The ambitious stepmother' by Nicholas Rowe; Vol. II. contains: 'The Beggar's Opera' and 'Polly' by Gay, 'The way to keep him', 'The guardian', 'The gentle shepherd' by Allan Ramsay |
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