(Theatre.) John Bell: 'Bell's British Theatre', London, for ...

Hammer

£110

(Theatre.) John Bell: 'Bell's British Theatre', London, for John Bell (and later George Cawthorn), 1791-1796, 33 volumes, containing 136 separate plays including works by John Milton, Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Colley Cibber, Joseph Addison, Robert Dodsley, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Fielding, Richard Cumberland, George Farquhar, Sir John Vanbrugh, Isaac Bickerstaff etc etc, 136 engraved plates, many volumes with dedications; some with preface and advertisements, all with dramatis personae for performances at the Drury Lane and/or Covent Garden theatres, 12mo, uniform contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, morocco gilt labels to spines, pencil ownership signature at front of volume 1 of Lady Bampfylde, Poltimore House embossed stamps to title pages, contemporary manuscript list of plays to blank leaves at front of volume 1 (33)