The Dramatic Works

Dryden, John

Six volumes from the pen of the founder of the heroic couplet, 'Glorious John' to Sir Walter Scott, and the first person to posit that English sentences should not end in prepositions: England, on stage, during the Restoration, complete texts of thirty plays and dialogues; edited by Montague Summers with notes, introduction, chronology; #583/750 numbered copies (total edition 800).

Publisher: The Nonesuch Press. First English edition 1931
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Original cloth and marbled boards. Foxing to foredges, covers rubbed, spines sunned. Very good. The six vols.


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