London: Tonson, Thomas Bennet and Richard Wellington, 1701. First Folio edition. With extra engraved frontispiece. Dryden's plays were... Read More
Price: $1,000
London: Privately printed for Subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1906. Large Paper edition. Large Paper. Part of the “Early English Dramatists” series published in 12 volumes. Read More
Price: $150
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition. Presentation from Eliot to Allen Tate. With the error at page 29, line 1 “here” for “her.” A remarkable association copy, with the following pre-publication presentation inscription from Eliot to his American friend and admirer, poet and critic Allen Tate: "To Allen Tate from..... Read More
Price: $6,000
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1939). First edition. Signed by Eliot. Signed ("T.S. Eliot") on the title-page. "In the late 1930s, Eliot attempted to conflate a drama of spiritual crisis with a Noël Coward-inspired contemporary theater of social manners. Though Eliot based The Family Reunion on the plot of Aeschylus's Eumenides..... Read More
Price: $1,500
London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887. Includes Marlowe, Mssinger, Middleton, Beaumont and Fletcher, Congreve, Webster & Cyril Tourneur, Shirley, Otway, Ford & Thomas Heywood. Read More
Price: $200
![The Travellers in Switzerland. A Comic Opera. ... . [bound with:] PEARCE, [William], librettist. Hartford Bridge: or, The Skirts of he Camp ... an Operatic Farce. Lacks half-title. [bound with:] CUMBERLAND, [Richard], The Box-Lobby Challenge, a Comedy ... [1794?] [bound with:] CROSS, J.C. The Purse; or, Benevolent Tar: A Musical Drama. Second edition. English Comic Opera, H. Bate Dudley, librettist.](/pictures/thumb/215352.jpg?v=1542350869)
London: Debrett; Longman; Debrett; Debrett, 1794; 1793; [1794?]; [1794]. All but the last title first editions. Read More
Price: $600
London: Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman, 1795. First editions. Read More
Price: $850
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1905-8. Large Paper copies, limited to 60 copies. Large Paper Copies. Part of the “Early English Dramatists” series published in 12 volumes. Read More
Price: $400
London: T. Waller, 1742. First edition. First edition this translation of Aristophanes' Plutus by Henry Fielding and William Young. The comedies of Aristophanes served as a model for two of Fielding's most successful plays, Pasquin and The Historical Register. The dedication is to the opposition reformer Lord Talbot, to whom... Read More
Price: $2,000
London: J. Roberts, 1730. First edition. Fielding's First Popular Success. First edition of Fielding's third play, a comic ballad opera in the mold of Gay's Beggar's Opera; it ran for 41 nights in its first season and was subsequently revived. "In March 1730 at the Little Haymarket Theatre he had... Read More
Price: $2,500
London: J. Watts, 1750. Third edition. The revised and expanded third edition of Fielding's third play, a comic ballad opera first staged in 1730. A note on the title-page reads: "This piece was originally acted at the Hay-Market, and revived some years after at Drury-Lane, when it was revised, and... Read More
Price: $500
London: J. Watts, 1741. Second London edition. The second authorized London edition, a close reprint of the 1737 Roberts edition. By the time this edition was published, Fielding had ended his dramatic career, effectively silenced by the Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737, which censored the stage and limited theatrical performances... Read More
Price: $500
London: John Watts, 1728. First edition. Fielding's First Play. First edition of the 20-year-old Fielding's first play and his second surviving publication. "Fielding's career as dramatist began auspiciously enough when, as an unknown author in his twentieth year, his first play, the comedy Love in Several Masques, was staged by... Read More
Price: $750
London: J. Watts, 1733. First edition. First edition of Fielding's adaptation of Molière's L'Avare, the most successful of his "regular" comedies. With an epilogue by Colley Cibber. Read More
Price: $350
London: J. Watts, 1730. First edition, ordinary paper issue. Fielding's Second Play. First edition of Fielding's second play, written upon his return to London following nearly two years on the Continent. The Temple Beau was turned down by Drury Lane — where two years earlier Fielding, with the help of... Read More
Price: $1,250
London: J. Roberts, [1737]. First authorized edition, Cross's second edition. This edition has traditionally been described as the second, following Cross, who terms it "The 2nd edition, though not so named, with many alterations." Cross's first edition, also under the J. Roberts imprint, but with 41 instead of 48 pages... Read More
Price: $1,000
London: Privately Printed for subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1906. Large paper copy, limited to 60 copies. Large Paper. Part of the “Early English Dramatists” Series issued in 12 volumes. Read More
Price: $150
![[Collection of plays:] Dodsley, Robert, The Toy-Shop, A Dramatick Satire [and 6 others]. David Garrick, Henry Fielding.](/pictures/thumb/309153.jpg?v=1534808051)
London: various publishers, 1731-9. First editions of Achilles, The Universal Passion, Gustavus Vasa, Edward and Eleonora and The Tragedy of Tragedies, second edition of Woman’s Revenge and the third edition of The Toy-Shop. First editions of Achilles, The Universal Passion, Gustavus Vasa, Edward and Eleonora and The Tragedy of Tragedies..... Read More
Price: $5,000
N. P: circa 1940's. Read More
Price: $750
London: Printed for J. Watson et all, 1775. Later edition. David Garrick's Copy. This work was so immensely popular that, initially published in 1760-65, it went through possibly 20 editions by 1800. It is a satire of manners and politics of the day and "depicts many famous contemporaries in all... Read More
Price: $750
London: W. Lowndes, 1792. Read More
Price: $75
London: Printed for Thomas Astley, at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1743. First edition, with half-title. Read More
Price: $500
New York: May 13, 1955. Variant of the print published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Gazzara as the Original 'Brick'. The original production of Tennessee Williams' CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, directed by Elia Kazan, opened on March 28, 1955. His... Read More
Price: $1,250
Philadelphia: Printed by Henry Miller, in Second-Street, 1765. First edition. The first play produced by an American. First edition of The Prince of Parthia which was "the first drama written by a native American to be produced upon the professional stage" (DAB). The play debuted on 24 April 1767 at... Read More
Price: $8,500
[Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Number 124 of 325 copies. Printed by Robert Gibbings. Read More
Price: $175
London: Printed for W. Griffin, 1768. First edition, second impression, mixed state of L1-2 (no catchword p. 74, 3-1/2 line footnote on one page Epilogue). Dr. Johnson supplied the Prologue. Read More
Price: $250