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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate . London: D. Brown and P. Parker, 1700. With half-title. Mostly in verse. (A few rust spots and minor soil marks.) Provenance : G. Rice (signature on title). FIRST EDITION of this adaptation by Charles Gildon. As Bartlett remarks, 'Davenant first combined portions of Measure for Measure and Much Ado and called the play Law against Lovers . This appeared in 1673. Gildon took from this the portions which had been taken from Measure for Measure , altered them somewhat, [and] added four musical entertainments'. His title-page therefore showed some honesty in stating: 'written originally by Mr. Shakespear: and now very much alter'd; with additions of several entertainments of music'. GOOD COPY. No auction sale recorded by ABPC since 1980. Bartlett 182; Wing S-2936.
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate . London: D. Brown and P. Parker, 1700. With half-title. Mostly in verse. (A few rust spots and minor soil marks.) Provenance : G. Rice (signature on title). FIRST EDITION of this adaptation by Charles Gildon. As Bartlett remarks, 'Davenant first combined portions of Measure for Measure and Much Ado and called the play Law against Lovers . This appeared in 1673. Gildon took from this the portions which had been taken from Measure for Measure , altered them somewhat, [and] added four musical entertainments'. His title-page therefore showed some honesty in stating: 'written originally by Mr. Shakespear: and now very much alter'd; with additions of several entertainments of music'. GOOD COPY. No auction sale recorded by ABPC since 1980. Bartlett 182; Wing S-2936. Part of a bound collection of plays, also including: [VANBRUGH, Sir John (1664-1726)]. The Mistake. A Comedy . London: Jacob Tonson, 1706. With half-title, epilogue and final advertisement leaf. (Browned, some headlines shaved, last 4 leaves misbound.) -- FARQUHAR, George (1677?-1707). The Inconstant ... A Comedy . London: J. Knapton, G. Strahan and B. Lintott, 1702. 5-page list of J. Knapton's books at end. (Browned, title shaved, F* bound in upside down.) An adaptation of John Fletcher's The Wild Goose Chase -- The Royal Merchant: or Beggar's Bush. A Comedy. London: for H.N. and sold by J. Nutt, 1706. With half-title. (Browned, first quire with internal tears, some top and bottom margins close shaved with occasional loss of headlines.) An adaptation of The Beggar's Bush , a play attributed to Beaumont and Fletcher but probably by Fletcher and Philip Massinger. One of two issues, the other undated, both rare. Goldsmiths' 4365 -- GRIMSTON, William Luckyn, Viscount (1683?-1756). The Lawyer's Fortune . London: Bernard Lintott, 1705. With half-title and three final advertisement pages, without the inserted leaf (G3). One of two issues, the other undated, both rare -- CROWN, John (1640?-1712). Calisto: or, The Chaste Nimph. The Late Masque at Court . London: Tho. Newcomb for James Magnes and Richard Bentley 1675. 'Register skips quire G' (ESTC) -- [ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719)]. Rosamond. An Opera. London: Jacob Tonson, 1707. With 4-page advertisement at end for books sold by Edmund Rumball. (Upper margins shaved slightly affecting numerals.) ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Together 7 dramatic works bound in 3 volumes with 15 others (several defective), all 4° (215 x 165), near uniform blind-panelled calf (rebacked, new endpapers in one volume). Provenance : by direct descent to Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor (1935-2008). (3)