636 lots.

"No. 9 of 1965-66"--Cover.

"The first portion comprising, collected editions of English dramatists: Shakespeare, Dekker, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ford, Cartwright [1651], Davenant [1673], with the Huth copy of the Works, 5 vols., full morocco, Dryden, Congreve and others - fine sets of Dodsley's Old English Plays, by W.C. Hazlitt, The Mermaid Series, Dramatists of the Restoration, and Bell's British Theatre, in full morocco - first editions of play by 18th century dramatists. Rainold's Overthrow of Stage Plays, 1629 - Rymer's Short View of Tragedy, 1693 - Aaron Hill's, The Actor, 1750 - Histories of the Stage and Books on Dramatic Criticism by Payne Collier, Doran, Ward, Fleay, Chambers, Bentley, and others. Lives of actors and actresses, including David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, Mrs. Mary Robinson, Mrs. Siddons, J.P. Kemble, Fanny Kemble, Charles Mathews, W.C. Macready, and others, several being extra-illustrated and bound in full morocco - books on Italian and French comedy. With other properties, including 16th and 17th century books - Hickeringill's Jamaica Viewed, 1661 - Camden's Britannia, 1722 - first editions of Scott's Novels, in boards uncut - modern books relating to Africa. Issues from the Kelmscott, Doves, Golden Cockerel, and other modern presses."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: June 30 and July 1, 1966.