[THEATRE] [JOHNSON, Samuel.] Irene; A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, London: for R. Dodlsey and sold by M. Cooper, 1749, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half title (which is soiled), signature of Edward Davies, 1749, on title. [Courtney & Smith p. 24; Rothschild 1231] [bound with:] William GODWIN. Antonio; A tragedy, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, the 2 works bound in one volume with 6 other tragedies, contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards (spine a little frayed at head and repaired at foot).

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[THEATRE] [JOHNSON, Samuel.] Irene; A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, London: for R. Dodlsey and sold by M. Cooper, 1749, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half title (which is soiled), signature of Edward Davies, 1749, on title. [Courtney & Smith p. 24; Rothschild 1231] [bound with:] William GODWIN. Antonio; A tragedy, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, the 2 works bound in one volume with 6 other tragedies, contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards (spine a little frayed at head and repaired at foot).

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Thomas Hammond Foxcroft, armorial and book label.

拍品專文

Johnson maintained the unities of time, place and action in this his sole dramatic work which, aided by the powers of Garrick, was acted nine times -- a more successful run at least than Godwin's Antonio which was abandoned after the first performance. The other dramas included in this volume are Edward Young's The Brothers (1753, title soiled and damaged), Goethe's Clavidgo (1798), Cymbeline adapted from Shakespeare by William Hawkins (1759, title soiled and detached), Browne's Barbarossa (title lacking), James Thomson's Coriolanus (1749) and James Miller's Mahomet the Impostor adapted from Voltaire (1744).