The history of English Dramatic Poetry to the time of Shakespeare: and annals of the stage to the Restoration. By J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. A new edition. Volume the second

The history of English Dramatic Poetry to the time of Shakespeare: and annals of the stage to the Restoration. By J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. A new edition. Volume the second

Author: Collier, J. Payne (John Payne)

Year: 1879

Second of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. [2], 544. There are three copies in this collection. The first is in morocco-backed brown boards; laid in is a letter to ‘Mrs Ross,’ 16 July 1879, presenting the book and referring to ‘your bountiful Father’ who has ‘just sent me what is indeed well worth more than thanks.’ The brown boards were a trial binding, and Collier asked for them to be changed to red. The second is in morocco-backed brown boards. It is Collier’s own copy, with a letter from the sixth Duke of Devonshire, accepting the dedication of the first edition, tipped in. The present is in morocco-backed red boards (the final binding, as insisted upon by Collier). The present work is the second edition of Collier’s History of English Dramatic Poetry (first edition: 1831, see Bib# 584555/Fr# 921 in this collection). The principal novelty of the new edition was the addition of a section on early Shakespearian actors, lightly revised from Collier’s 1846 Shakespeare Society ‘Memoirs of the principal Actors in the plays of Shakespeare’ (Bib# 4117146/Fr# 968). Elsewhere in the three volumes he inserted occasional references to works published since 1831, and he generally (but not always) made