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Drake, James, The Ancient and Modern Stages Survey'd. Or, Mr. Collier's View of the Immortality and Profaness of the English Stage Set in a True Light...and the Comparative Morality of the English Stage is Asserted Upon the Parallel. London, Printed for Abel Roper. . 1699. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xxxii],367 [368 blank], recently recased in quarter calf, morocco labels, marbled boards; several gatherings browned and foxed,first ten leaves severely wormed in lower margin (text not affected)First edition of this rare work on the English Stage in which Drake argues, with examples that 'lewdness'and 'immodesty' can just as easily be found in Plautus or Sophocles as in contemporary drama.
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