Amends for Ladies A comedy by Nathaniel Field With illustrations and notes by J Payne Collier Esq

Amends for Ladies A comedy by Nathaniel Field With illustrations and notes by J Payne Collier Esq

Author: Field Nathaniel Field Nathan Collier John P John Payne ed

Year: 1829

8vo ff 2 pp 3 80 Signatures A 1 B F8 Original tan printed wrappers back wrapper lacking large paper No V of “A series of old plays now for the first time reprinted uniformly with the last edition of Dodsley’s Collection With illustrations and notes by J Payne Collier Esq ” The last 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