The dramatick works of John Dryden, Esq; : in six volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Contributor:

Congreve, William, 1670-1729.

Standardized Title:

Plays

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)

Physical Description:

6 volumes : portraits ; 17 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1725.

Contents:

(from title pages) v. 1. An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival ladies. The Indian queen. The Indian emperor, or, The conquest of Mexico [with A defence of An essay of dramatick poesie]

v. 2. Secret love, or, The maiden queen. Sir Martin Mar-all, or, The feign'd innocence. The tempest, or, The enchanted island. Evening's love, or, The mock astrologer. Tyrannick love, or, The royal martyr

v. 3. Almanzor and Almahide, or, The conquest of Granada by the Spaniards. Marriage a-la-mode. The assignation, or, Love in a nunnery. Amboyna, or, The cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants

v. 4. The state of innocence, and the fall of man. Aurenge-Zebe, or, The great Mogul. All for love, or, The world well lost. Limrerham [i.e. Limberham], or, The kind keeper. Oedipus

v. 5. Troilus and Cressida, or, Truth found too late. The Spanish fryar, or, The double discovery. The Duke of Guise. Vindication of the Duke of Guise. Albion and Albianus [i.e. Albanius]

v. 6. Don Sebastian, King of Portual. Amphitryon, or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur, or, The British worthy. Love triumphant, or, Nature will prevail. [A dialogue and secular masque.]

Notes:

General t.p. appears in v. 1 only. Each volume has special t.p. Each play has special t.p., but pagination and signatures are continuous in each volume.

Edited by William Congreve.

Special t.p. of v. 1 and most of the individual plays have imprint: Printed in the year MDCCXXV. The kind keeper and Oedipus (v. 4) have imprint: London : Printed for M. Poulson, 1725; The Duke of Guise (v. 5): London : Printed for J. Tonson, and M. Poulson, 1725; Albion and Albanius (v. 5) and Don Sebastian (v. 6): London, Printed in the year MDCCXXV; A dialogue and secular masque (end of v. 6): London : Printed for B. Motte, M.DCC.XXV.

Local Notes:

RBC copy 1 Imperfect: first two leaves of v. 1 (general title leaf and portrait) wanting; last leaf of v. 3 wanting.

RBC copy 2 imperfect: v. 1 wanting; title leaves of v. 4 and 6 wanting; title leaf of The state of innocence wanting; The kind keeper (v. 4) and Don Sebastian (v. 6) are of the 1735 and 1762 editions respectively.

Cited in:

Macdonald 109b (varies)

OCLC:

3443414