Author: MIDDLETON, THOMAS
Title: [Five Plays by] Thomas Middleton, Volume I Only (of 2) the Mermaid Series
Description: London / New York: T. Fisher Unwin / Charles Scribner's Sons, [c.1880s-1900s]. Hardcover. A compact edition presenting five plays by England's Thomas Middleton (1580-1627). Includes two comedies, two tragedies and a tragicomedy. Volume I only (of 2). With tissue-guarded engraved frontis portrait of the author and an introduction by Algernon Charles Swinburne. An entry in co-publishers' The Mermaid Series. --- In full salmon cloth-covered boards with mermaid images and titling to cover and spine, all in gilt. Printed on extra-thin paper, with engraved decorations scattered throughout the text. TEG (top edge gilt). Undated, but possibly published c.1880s-1900s. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signatures to title page & front free endpaper, dampstain to front cover, else a clean, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall ; xli, 454 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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