Beschreibung:

The Dr Leonard F.M. Scinto collection of seventeenth century English Academic Drama, comprising:
(i) ALABASTER (WILLIAM) Roxana Tragaedia olim Cantabrigiae, acta in Col. Trin., pirated edition preceding the first authorised edition, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light toning, brown calf, gilt title on spine (faded), joints cracked, loss at head of spine [Greg L11a], 12mo, R. Badgerus for Andrew Crook, 1632
(ii) ALABASTER (WILLIAM) Roxana Tragaedia A plagiarij unguibus vindicata, aucta, & agnita ab Authore Gvlielmo Alabastro, FIRST AUTHORISED EDITION, engraved additional title, woodcut printer's device and head- and tail-pieces, early blind-tooled calf, gilt lettering on spine, corners bumped [STC 250; Greg L11b], 8vo, William Jones 1632
(iii) CARTWRIGHT (WILLIAM) Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, first collected edition, engraved author portrait frontispiece by Lombart, five sectional titles, first title cropped at fore-edge just touching a few letters, leaf Πa8 with margin cropped causing loss to text, Πb2 with part of fore-margin cut away and the rest folded in, b8 in "Lady Errant" is a cancel, lacking f4 blank, early twentieth century tooled morocco, spine creased [Greg III, pp.1027-1031; Sabin 11166; Wing C709], 8vo, Humphrey Moseley, 1651
(iv) COWLEY (ABRAHAM) The Guardian. A comedie Acted before Prince Charles his Highness, at Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge, upon the 12th of March, 1641, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, woodcut device on title, cropped at margin throughout with loss to text affecting most leaves, stitched paper wrappers, corners worn, housed in a custom-made linen chemise [Greg 693aI; Wing C6673], John Holden, 1650
(v) COWLEY (ABRAHAM) The Guardian. A Comedie Acted before Prince Charles his Highness, at Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge, upon the 12th of March, 1641, FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE, browning especially to title, cropped upper margins with loss to text on A2 and touching most of the headlines, modern calf gilt, joints starting, worn [Greg 693 aII; Pforzeimer 225; Wing C6673], 8vo, John Holden, 1650
(vi) GOFFE (THOMAS) The Raging Turke or, Baizet the Second, FIRST EDITION, trimmed, light browning, modern quarter morocco gilt [Greg II 447a; USTC 3015288; Wing G1006], 4to, Augustine Matthews for Richard Meighen, 1631
(vii) GOFFE (THOMAS) The Couragious Turke or Amurath the First, FIRST EDITION, typographic woodcut ornament on title, ownership inscription on title, shaved lower margin, title and following leaf with loss touching text, browning, modern blue paper boards [STC 11977], 4to, B. Alsop, and T. Fawcet, for Richard Meighen, 1632
(viii) HAUSTED (PETER) Senile odium, FIRST EDITION, lacking final blank (G4), ink stamps of the Bolland collection (British Library of Political and Economic Science) on verso of title, light toning and occasional marginal damp-staining, modern blue morocco [Greg L13; USTC3016660;], 8vo, Cambridge, [John Buck and Thomas Buck, and Roger Daniel], 1633
(ix) HAWKINS (THOMAS) The Origin of the English Drama, 3 vol., 3 plates after early woodcuts in volume 1 (cropped lower margin), modern quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt tooling on spines, 8vo, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1773
(x) HOLYDAY (BARTON) Τεχνογαμια, or, The Marriage of the Arts, cropped margins resulting with loss to text on most leaves, lacking E3 and O3, light toning, modern quarter calf, worn spine ends [Greg II 353], 4to, William Stansby for John Parker 1618
(xi) LANGBAINE (GERARD) Momus Triumphans: or, The Plagiaries of the English Stage, FIRST EDITION, contemporary annotations on index and near contemporary annotation on last page listing titles of plays, upper margin trimmed touching a few letters of title, browning and light spotting mostly to title, half-calf over marbled board, worn [USTC 3114612; Wing L377], 4to, printed for Nicholas Cox and are to be sold by Samuel Holford, 1688 [but 1687]
(xii) LANGBAINE (GERARD) The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets, bookplates of A.N.L Munby and George "Dadie" Rylands and inscribed "Dadie from Tim 5 May 1948", with additional *L4, lacking final blank, light toning and spotting, contemporary panelled mottled calf, rebacked, red morocco gilt title label on spine, worn [Wing L376], 8vo, William Turner 1699
(xiii) RANDOLPH (THOMAS) Cornelianum dolium. Comoedia lepidissima..., additional engraved title by William Marshall [STC 20691; Greg L16], Thomas Harper, 1638; together with GWINNE (MATTHEW) Nero Tragoedia Nova, M.F. Prostant, 1639, 2 works bound in 1, bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, age-toning and marginal damp-staining, near contemporary stiff vellum, yapp edges, soiled and with small loss to spine label, 12mo
(xiv) RANDOLPH (THOMAS) Poems with the Muses Looking-glasse and Amyntas, 3 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, separate title to each part, age-toning, modern blue morocco gilt by Riviere and Son [Greg III, pp.1100-1101; Pforzheimer 828; USTC 3019583] 4to, Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Francis Bowman, 1638
(xv) RANDOLPH (THOMAS) Poems with the Muses Looking-glasse and Amyntas, 3 parts in 1 vol., second edition, additional engraved title, separate title to each part, previous ownership bookplates, light age-toning, elaborate gilt morocco antique by Dusel, g.e. [Greg III, pp.1100-1101; USTC 3021183], 8vo, Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Francis Bowman, 1640
(xvi) RANDOLPH (THOMAS) Poems with the Muses Looking-glasse and Amyntas, separate title to each part, together with The Jealous Lovers, [USTC 3020978], 2 works in 1 vol., W.W. Greg's copy ("W.W. Greg Park Lodge 1922"), lacking frontispiece, one gathering misbound, light toning, later calf, rebacked, lower joint cracked, 8vo, [Cambridge], Roger Daniel sold by Richard Ireland, [1640]
(xvii) RANDOLPH (THOMAS) Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse, Amyntas, Jealous Lovers, Arystippus, 5 parts in 1 vol., fourth edition enlarged, separate title to each part, cropped affecting text on lower margin of one page, browning and occasional damp-staining, eighteenth-century dark tan mottled calf gilt, rebacked, some wear [Wing R242] 8vo, 1652
(xviii) RANDOLPH (THOMAS) Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse, Amyntas, Jealous Lovers, Arystippus, 5 parts in 1 vol., fourth edition enlarged, engraved frontispiece, separate title to each part, browning, eighteenth-century calf gilt, some wear especially to spine [USTC 3068197; Pforzheimer 829; Wing R243], 8vo, Oxford, Francis Bowman, 1652
(xix) RANDOLPH (THOMAS) Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse, Amyntas whereonto is added The Jealous Lovers, title and first leaf lose, light toning, later speckled calf, rebacked and corners repaired [USTC 3085074; Wing 246], 8vo, Oxford, printed for Francis Bowman, sold by John Crosley, 1668
(xx) RUGGLE (GEORGE) Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Regia Magistate Jacobi Regis Angliae, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, light toning, near contemporary vellum, light soiling and wear [Greg II L8b], 12mo, Impensis I.S., 1630
(xxi) RUGGLE (GEORGE) Ignoramus. Comoedia coram Regia Magistate Jacobi Regis Angliae, FIRST EDITION, second printing, engraved frontispiece, light toning and some spotting, modern blue half moroccco with blue morroco slipcase, light wear [Greg II L8b], 12mo, Typis T.H. Sumptibus G.E. & I.S. 1630; and others.
(xxii) RUGGLE (GEORGE) Ignoramus: A Comedy As it was several times Acted with extraordinary Applause, before the Majesty of King James .., first English edition, lacking first and last blank, some browning and spotting, upper margin cropped at times touching header, modern panelled tooled calf, light wear [Greg L8 trans.; Wing R2212], 4to, W. Gilberston, 1662
(xxiii) [SNELLING (THOMAS)] Thibaldus sive Vindictae Ingenium, FIRST EDITION, ink stamps of the Bolland Collection British Library of Political and Economical Science on verso of title, light toning, modern calf tooled [Greg L17 AI], 8vo, Oxford, Leonard Lichfield, 1640
(xxiv) STRODE (WILLIAM) The Floating Island: A Tragi-Comedy, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, tear on title neatly repaired, light browning, trimmed, modern quarter calf over marbled boards, light wear to spine [Greg 746; Wing S5983], 4to, T.C. for H. Twiford, 1655
(xxv) STUBBE (EDMUND) Fraus Honesta, FIRST EDITION, lacks blank A1 [Greg L10], Richard Thrale, 1632; [WINGFIELD (ANTHONY) Pedantius], lacking title page and the two engravings [L9], Robert Mylbourn, 1632, 2 works bound in 1 vol., modern dark tan calf, gilt lettering on spine, rubbed, 12mo
(xxvi) [TOMKIS (THOMAS)] Lingua or The Combat of the Tongue and the five senses for Superiority, title and first three leaves with loss to upper margin affecting the text, lower margin cropped occasionally affecting catchwords, browned, stitched in paper wrappers, manuscript title wrapper, worn, preserved in custom made chemise and slipcase bearing bookplate of Donald & Mary Hyde [not in Greg, Wing T1842 later editions], 4to, Printed by Nicholas Oaks, for Simon Waterson, 1617
(xxvii) WINGFIELD (ANTHONY) Pedantius, FIRST EDITION, title in ornamental woodcut border, 2 engravings, contemporary manuscript inscription on title, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Cortiniana, light spotting and toning, nineteenth century green armorial morocco with the arms and motto of Joaquin Gomez de la Cortina ("J. Gomez de la Cortina et amicorum" and "Fallitur hora legendo"), rebacked and repaired, loss to spine, worn [Greg L19], 12mo, W.S [Willaim Stansby] for Robert Mylbourn, 1631
(xxviii) [ZOUCH (RICHARD)] The Sophister. A Comedy, FIRST EDITION, title in ornamental woodcut border (cropped right margin), lacking preliminary blank, trimmed upper margin touching headers, browning and damp-staining, W.W. Greg's copy (ink inscription on front free endpaper "Walter W. Greg Park Lodge 1902"), modern half-calf, light wear [Greg 556A], small 4to, J.O [John Okes] for Humphrey Mosley, 1639
(xxix) Pathomachia, or the Battle of Affections, LIMITED EDITION, reprint of the 1630 first edition, errata leaf of ?1630 edition loosely inserted, untrimmed, original binding with glassine wrappers bound in, modern paper covers, minor repairs, small 4to, Edinburgh, Privately Printed, 1887
(xxx) A Pleasant Comedie, Called Wily Beguilde, fifth edition, lacking A2 (Prologue), light toning, modern calf gilt by Riviere, gilt dentelles, joints cracked [Greg 234e], small 4to, Printed for Thomas Knight, and are to bee sold by Edward Blackmore, and Edward Coules, 1635
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