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[PRINTED ON VELLUM]. D?AVENANT, William, sir (1606?1668). [Dramatists of the Rest...
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[PRINTED ON VELLUM]. D?AVENANT, William, sir (1606?1668). [Dramatists of the Restoration]: The Dramatic Works of? Edinburgh and London: William Paterson and Sotheran & Co., 1872?74. 5 volumes, thick 8vo (229 x 159 mm). Half?titles, printer?s device on title, ONE OF FOUR COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM for subscribers only. Contemporary red cloth, morocco spine label gilt titled, edges uncut (spines a bit darkened, joints and labels rubbed with light fraying at spine ends, marginal dust soiling). With extra leaf of p. 331 laid in to Vol. II. A massive 2,100-page work printed on full vellum, likely being the largest work printed entirely on vellum of this period which took two years to complete. This set is the first in a series of 14 volumes published under the general heading of Dramatists of the Restoration. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE SET PRINTED ON VELLUM.
