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Most still well bound with wear to extremities as expected.6 x 4 inch. Only vol 12 would be described as poor which is missing it's spine (but otherwise still well bound together) & vol 25 has a little bit of spine missing (see pic) . Most of the black labels missing. All edges clean cut & 'speckle' decorated. Decorative bookplate of original owner John Spicer in each. Each play has it's own title page with printing dates generally between 1791 & 1796. Vols consist of (last few vols truncated by space availabe - please ask me for the complete list) 1. Comus, A Mask - Milton, Alchymist - Ben Jonson, Love for Love - Congreve, Rival Queens - Lee 2. Spanish Friar - Dryden, Boadicea - Glover, Minor - Foote, Refusal - Cibber 3. Fair Penitent - Rowe, Douglas - Home, Cato - Addison, Jane Shore - Rowe, Roman Father - Whitehead 4. Every Man In His Humour - Ben Jonson, Suspicious Husband - Hoadly, Grecian Daughter - Murphy, Choleric Man - Cumberland 5. Cleone - Dodsley, Isabella - Altered from Southern, She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not - Cibber, Discovery - Mrs Frances Sheridan 6. Distressed Mother - Philips, Earl of Essex - Jones, Medea - Glover, Gamesters - Shirley & Johnson, Battle of Hastings - Cumberland 7. Love make a man - Cibber, Alzira - Hill, School for wives - Kelly, School for lovers - Whithead 8. Maid of the Mill - Bickerstaff, Rule a wife - Beaumont & Fletcher, Careless Husband - Cibber, Revenge - Young 9. Orphan - Otway, Country Lasses - Charles Johnson, She Stoops to Conquer - Goldsmith, Black Prince - W. Shirley 10. Beaux stratagem - Farquhar, Gamester - Moore, Double Gallant - Cibber, Theodosius - Lee 11. Beggar's Opera - Gay, Chances - Altered from Beaumont & Fletcher, Miser - Fielding, Foundling - Moore 12. Bold stroke for a wife - Mrs Centlivre, All in the wrong - Murphy, Brothers - Cumberland, Siege of Damascus - Hughes. 13. Love in a village - Bickerstaff, Country Girl - Altered from Wycherly by Garrick, Conscious lovers - Steele, Recruitiing Officer - Farquhar 14. Fair Quaker of Deal - Charles Shadwell, Tancred & Sigismunda - Thomson, George Barnwell - Lillo, Clandestine Marriage - Colman & Garrick 15. Venice preserved - Otway, Lady Jane Grey - Rowe, Oedipus - Dryden & Lee, Ximena - Cibber 16. Busy Body - Mrs Centlivre, All for Love - Dryden, Constant Couple - Farquhar, Carmelite - Cumberland 17. Zara - Hill, Way to keep him - Murphy, Good Natured Man - Goldsmith, Earl of Warwick -Franklin 18. Philaster - Beaumont & Fletcher, Provoked husband - Vanbrugh and Cibber, Fashionable lovers - Cumberland, Countess of Salisbury - Hall Hartson 19. Mourning Bride - Congreve, Oroonoko - Southern, West Indian - Cumberland, Kin Charles I - Havard 20. Tender husband - Steele, Committee - Howard, Matural Joy - Cumberland, Jealous wife - Colman. 21. Lionel & Clarissa - Bickerstaff, Hypocrite - Altered from Cibber, Wonder - Mrs Centlivre, Amphytrion - Altered from Dryden.22. Albion Queens - Banks, Tamerlane - Rowe, Confederacy - Vanbrugh, Drummer - Addison 23. Merope - Hill, Mahomet - Miller, Cymon - Garrick, Plain Dealer - Wycherly, Fatal Curiosity - Lillo 24. Lady's Last Stake - Cibber, Cyrus - Hoole, Gleonice - Hoole, Orphan of China - Murphy. 25. The Gentle Shepherd - Ramsay, The Mistake - Vanbrugh, Ambitious step-mother - Rowe, Irene - Dr Johnson. 26. Mariamne - Fenton, Barbarossa - Brown, Relapse - Vanbrugh, Eurydice - Mallet. 27. The provok'd wife - Vanbrugh, The Funeral - Steele, The Royal convert - Rowe, Man of the World - Macklin. 28. The Double Dealer - Congreve, The Old Batchelor - Congreve, Henry the Second, Hull, Phaedra and Hippolitus - Smith. 29. Pericles - Shakspere, Busiris - Young, The Rehearsal - Buckingham, Albina - Mrs Cowley. 30. False Delicacy - Kelly, A word to the wise - Kelly, School for Rakes - Mrs Griffiths, The