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GB: Printed for J. Tonson & J. Watts and sold by W. Feales, London, 1735. Separate rubricated title (at start) and then The Confederacy (1735, Tonson & Feales); The False Friend (1735, Tonson & Feales); The Mistake (1735, Tonson & Feales); A Journey to London (1734, Watts); The Provok'd Husband or a Joureny to London (1734, Watts & Feales). Each play with a frontispiece. Fairly clean tight text BUT some noticeable staining at start of The Confederacy. An old private library label "Porkington Library Case 8 No 22". Bound in old full leather with raised bands and gold on burgundy title label. Spine rather worn and outer joints rubbed but covers holding. Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . Hardback. G+/No DW.

London: J. Tonson and M. Wellington, 1730. Title page dated 1730. Volume 2, containing: The Confederacy; The False Friends; The Mistake; A Journey to London; The Provok'd Husband. Three quarter smooth calf over brown pebbled cloth, raised spine bands with gilt decoration, marbled edges and endpapers, 6.5" tall. Covers lightly rubbed, dual spine labels chipped nearly completely away, good hinges, firm text block, slightly age-toned but clean pages, initials on preliminary blank, no other names or markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: printed for J Tonson [etc], 1730. Complete in two hardback volumes. 12mo (16cm by 10cm), 303pp; 388pp. Contemporary binding of full brown calf, gilt titling to the spines. There is some rubbing and scuffing of the bindings, some foxing of the endpapers, and a bookplate and contemporary ownership inscription; overall, this set is in good condition.

London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes...[et al], 1759. 2 volumes. 12mo, 162 x 96 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 369 [370 Epilogue]; [7] 8 - 340 [341 - 342, 343 - 344 Songs], engraved portrait of Vanbrugh as frontispiece, contemporary polished calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spines, black morocco titling labels, olive green numbering labels, spine gilt in compartments; corners worn, spines rubbed with some loss of gilt a good to very good set. The first collected edition of plays by Sir John Vanbrugh (1664 - 1726) appeared in 1719. This 1759 edition is the first to contain The Country House. "Vanbrugh did nothing by halves. He had the gift of presenting complexity to others as simple, but not simplistic; even to his architectural clients he used clear, non-technical language. His two original comedies are brilliant, not only because they are both entertaining and serious, but because they present contrived situations and ridiculous characters as credible, crafted and often metrical speech as… Read More