Restoration Comedies: The Parsons Wedding, The London Cuckolds, & Sir Courtly Nice
ed. Montague Summers
1921
Jonathan Cape
Limited edition.
8vo
Description:
Limited edition of Montague Summers’s Restoration Comedies, with an introduction and notes by the editor, published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1921 in an edition of one thousand numbered copies of which is this no.178. A collection of three Restoration comedies which had not been brought together before: Thomas Killigrew’s The Parson’s Wedding, first printed in 1641 and revived after the Restoration, Edward Ravenscroft’s The London Cuckolds, a farce of city life and intrigue acted at the Duke’s Theatre, and John Crowne’s Sir Courtly Nice, or, It Cannot Be, a comedy of a foppish courtier and his friends.
Condition:
Good Condition. Pictorial paper covered boards with grey cloth spine. Binding is firm. Contents are foxed, particularly to prelims. Deckled edges. Ex libris to inside front cover. Boards are tanned to spine and edges. Some peeling to lettering plate on spine.
Restoration Comedies: The Parsons Wedding, The London Cuckolds, & Sir Courtly Nice
ed. Montague Summers
1921
Jonathan Cape
Limited edition.
8vo
Description:
Limited edition of Montague Summers’s Restoration Comedies, with an introduction and notes by the editor, published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1921 in an edition of one thousand numbered copies of which is this no.178. A collection of three Restoration comedies which had not been brought together before: Thomas Killigrew’s The Parson’s Wedding, first printed in 1641 and revived after the Restoration, Edward Ravenscroft’s The London Cuckolds, a farce of city life and intrigue acted at the Duke’s Theatre, and John Crowne’s Sir Courtly Nice, or, It Cannot Be, a comedy of a foppish courtier and his friends.
Condition:
Good Condition. Pictorial paper covered boards with grey cloth spine. Binding is firm. Contents are foxed, particularly to prelims. Deckled edges. Ex libris to inside front cover. Boards are tanned to spine and edges. Some peeling to lettering plate on spine.
