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[FINE BINDINGS]. [THEATRE]. The New British Theatre… Containing the Most Valuable Plays which have been acted on the London stage… London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776-77. 12mos. Each play illustrated with an engraving, engraved title-page to each volume. Bound in contemporary full calf, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, black and red gilt morocco lettering labels (bindings worn, soiled, several joints starting, front board of volume XII dampstained, first engraving in volume I nearly detached, a few pages a bit loose). Good. AN UNCOMMON SET OF PLAYS PERFORMED ON THE ENGLISH STAGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Some titles include: The Miser by Henry Fielding, Phaedra and Hippolitus by Edmund Smith, The Provok’d Wife by Sir John Vanbrugh, The Gamester by Mr. Moore, The Way of the World by Mr. Congreve, Every Man in His Humour by Ben Johnson [sic], and more.