Volume of plays and oratorios published by Harrison and Co in 1779 and 1780. Includes 3 plays by Shakespeare

London: Harrison and Co, 1779 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Full leather, but very very worn. Interesting book plate to front pastedown initials WS and crest of hand holding a pistol, above this printed name William Clarke. Contains a) Nath. Lee, Theodosius; or the force of love. 15p. Ink owner's name to title. b) Sir John Vanbrugh. The city wives confederacy. 24p, repair to title. c) Solomon an oratorio. 4p. d) Mr Havard, King Charles I.14p. e) Mr Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, being the sequel of the trip to the jubilee. 19p. f) Saul, an oratorio. 6p. Small hole to inner margin of last page. g) Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher. Philaster. 16p. h) Ben Johnson [Jonson] Every man in his humour. 23p. i) Shakespeare. Coriolanus. 22p. j) Beaumont and Fletcher. The chances. 1780. 21p. k) Jephtha, a sacred drama. 4p. l) Esther an oratorio. 4p. m) W Whitehead, The roman fathers. 14p. n) Mr Moore, The foundling. 18p. o) Colley Cibber, The school-boy; or, comical revival. 8p. p) Theobald, Electra. 14p. q) Brome and Roome. The jovial crew. 17p. r) Samuel Foote, The englishman returned from Paris. 10p. s) Dryden and Lee. Oedipus, 22p. t) Dryden and Hawkesworth, Amphitryon, 20p. u) Theodora, an oratorio. 5p. v) Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, 19p. w) Richard Steele. The funeral or grief a la mode. 20p. x) Henry Fielding, The Covent Garden tragedy. 6p. y) Shakespeare, Macbeth, 19p. browned. z) Smauel Foote, The patron. 13p. aa) Hawkesworth, Zimri an oratorio. 5p. All with foxing and staining, some more severe than others. No frontis present to any of plays, original stab holes visible to inner margins of most pages. Ms list of contents at front. This and ffep almost detached. a - f published 1779, g - aa published 1780. See ESTC for details of which were published together.