Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

65 c DRYDEN, JOHN. All for Love; or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy. [20], 78, [2] pages, including final epilogue leaf. 4to, 207x161 mm, 19th-century cloth- backed boards, backstrip lacking, covers detached; occasional heavy toning particularly at beginning and end, stain in upper outer corner of leaf after title and in outer margins in middle of volume, some headlines cropped. Collation note and signature of C. Bohn Slingluft dated 1871; signature of William Augustus White dated 1889. London:Tho. Newcomb for Henry Herringman, 1678 [200/300] first edition of an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Bartlett 163; Jaggard, page 282; Macdonald 82a; Pforzheimer 313; Wing D2229. 66 c DRYDEN, JOHN. Troilus and Cressida; or, Truth Found Too Late. A Tragedy . . .To which is prefix’d, A Preface containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. [26] (instead of [24]), 69, [3]) pages, including leaf with poem “To Mr. Dryden” by R. Duke found in some copies, and final ad leaf. 4to, 208x161 mm, later 19th-century ¾ navy morocco gilt; dampstaining in upper portion of contents throughout,A3 and a3 chipped in blank upper outer corner, some headlines cropped. Signature of William Augustus White dated London: Jacob Tonson and Abel Swall, 1679 [800/1,200] first edition of an adaptation of the Shakespeare play, including a fifth act written by Dryden; issue with Tonson’s name preceding Swall’s in the imprint. Bartlett 164; Jaggard, pages 476-77; Macdonald 84ai; Pforzheimer 915; Wing D2389. 67 c DRYDEN, JOHN. Of Dramatick Poesie, An Essay. By John Dreyden [sic]. [8], 51 pages. 4to, 215x162 mm, 19th-century cloth; contents toned and foxed, 19th-century catalogue cutting taped to front free endpaper. Signatures of J. R. Arding of Merton College, Oxford, dated 1787, and William Augustus White, dated 1887. London: Henry Herringman, 1684 [200/300] Second edition of Dryden’s 1668 essay in dialogue form on writing for the stage, “the first great sustained work in English dramatic theory” (DLB). Lowe-Arnott-Robinson 3693; Macdonald 127bi; Wing D2328. 66 67