The death of Robert Earl of Huntington by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle With illustrations and notes by J Payne Collier Es

The death of Robert Earl of Huntington by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle With illustrations and notes by J Payne Collier Esq

Author: Munday Anthony Chettle Henry Collier John P John Payne ed

Year: 1828

8vo f 1 pp 3 99 Signatures A 1 B G8 H2 Original tan printed wrappers “No II ” Large paper The second 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 this collection The present copy is the only recorded perfect copy of the work See A J Freeman John Payne Collier Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century New Haven 2004