Author: ELIOT, CHARLES W. (EDITOR)
Title: Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron ("the Harvard Classics" Series)
Description: New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardcover. A selection of 6 dramas by 6 leading English playwright/poets whose works first appeared from the 17th Century through the early 19th Century. --- Included are: All for Love, or, the World Well Lost by John Dryden; The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith; The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning; and Manfred by Lord Byron. With introduction, notes, 2 tissue-guarded sepia illustrations of scenes from "She Stoops..." and a reproduction of a publishing contract involving Oliver Goldsmith. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With a few whitish spots to covers, moderate wear to extremities of cloth, else a sound, unmarked, sturdy copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 444 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
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Title: Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron ("the Harvard Classics" Series)
Description: New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardcover. A selection of 6 dramas by 6 leading English playwright/poets whose works first appeared from the 17th Century through the early 19th Century. --- Included are: All for Love, or, the World Well Lost by John Dryden; The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith; The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning; and Manfred by Lord Byron. With introduction, notes, 2 tissue-guarded sepia illustrations of scenes from "She Stoops..." and a reproduction of a publishing contract involving Oliver Goldsmith. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With a few whitish spots to covers, moderate wear to extremities of cloth, else a sound, unmarked, sturdy copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 444 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv
Price: US$ 16.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86513
- Book number: 86513