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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Duodecimo. 72pp. At head of title-page: "Roach's edition." Wrappers. Original upper wrapper present. With the engraved plate. ESTC N30863. 0.

Hardcover. Etat : Good Plus. Roach's Edition. 8 volumes containing 30 plays with separate title-page and pagination, 28 with an engraved frontispiece, 28 printed by J. Roach at either Russell-Court/Russel-Court or Woburn-Street with "Roach's Edition" at head of title-page, 1 published in Edinburgh by Oliver & Boyd, and 1 printed in Dublin "for the Booksellers." Full tree-calf, gilt-stamped maroon leather spine labels. Contemporary ink signature to front blank in each volume, first four volumes with ink date of 1814. Covers scuffed and rubbed, some tanning, foxing and offsetting to text, some text pages and plates trimmed at lower edge, vol. 3 hinge between plate and title-page of "Isabella" cracked though tight and holding. Overall, a very good, scarce set of early Regency theatricals. Contents include: Thomas Otway - Venice Preserved, n.d.; The Rev. Henry Bate - The Flitch of Bacon, 1808; T. Knight - The Honest Thieves, 1797; Arthur Murphy - The Citizen, n.d.; George Lillo - George Barnwell, n.d. [1813?]; Mrs. Centlivre - A Bold Stroke for a Wife, 1806; Charles Coffey - The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphosed, 1808; Sir John Vanbrugh - Lovers' Quarrels, or Like Master, Like Man, 1806; [???] Artaxerxes. An English Opera, n.d. (without frontispiece); [Thomas Southerne] - Isabella or The Fatal Marriage, [1811]; Kane O'Hara - Midas. An English Burletta, n.d. [1802]; David Garrick - Bon Ton or High Life Above the Stairs, 1811; Shakespeare - Othello, n.d [1803]; Isaac Bickerstaff - Love in a Village, 1807; Mrs. Brooke - Rosina, n.d. [1816]; Henry Fielding - Tom Thumb, A Burlesque Tragedy, 1811; [???] The Tailors. A Tragedy for Warm Weather, n.d. [frontispiece dated 1805]; Mr. Bickerstaff - The Hypocrite, A Comedy Altered from C. Cibber, 1811; Beaumont & Fletcher - Rule A Wife & Have A Wife, 1808; Arthur Murphy - Three Weeks After Marriage, 1811; George Colman - The Jealous Wife, 1807; G. Colman & David Garrick - The Clandestine Marriage, n.d. [without frontispiece]; A. Murphy - The Way to Keep Him, 1807; R.B. Sheridan - A Trip to Scarborough, 1811; [Sheridan] - The School for Scandal, Dublin, 1800; Sheridan - The Rivals, 1811; Samuel Foote - The Mayor of Garratt, 1809; Edward Young - The Revenge, n.d. [frontispiece dated 1805]; A. Murphy - All In The Wrong, 1808; George Farquhar - The Beaux Stratagem, 1811. James (or John) Roach was a bookseller and compiler who kept a shop in Drury Lane near the Theatre Royal. His bookshop on Drury Lane stocked everything from children's anthologies to salacious prints, and he is credited with producing one of the first part-publications - a collection of poetry published over two years. He published an infamous pamphlet entitled Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies (a notorious catalogue of courtesans and their various specialties) which landed him in prison for several months. However, with his new found notoriety, he released a selection of theatre books which sold very well.…

Octavo. Modern yellow wrappers with title label to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), [i] (named cast list), [5]-55, [i] (publisher's catalogue). Named cast includes Mr. Jones (Count Almaviva), Mr. Fawcett (Doctor Bartolo), Mr. J. Isaacs (Basil), Mr. Liston (Figaro), Mr. Pyne (Fiorello), Mr. Simmons (Argus), Mr. Blanchard (Tallboy), Mr. Comer (Officer), Mr. Atkins (Notary), Mrs. Dickons (Rosina), and Mrs. Sterling (Marcellina). Slightly worn and browned; occasional small stains, minor creasing, and mispagination; small portion of blank upper outer corner of pp. 11/12 lacking. First Edition. OCLC 503796070 (two copies at the British Library only). Bishop's Barber of Seville, a comic opera in three acts to a libretto by J. Fawcett and D. Terry after T. Holcroft and P.-A. Beaumarchais, was first performed in London at Covent Garden on 13 October 1818. "In his day [Bishop] enjoyed a commanding reputation as the guardian of the best traditions of English song, and for a time he kept English opera alive almost single-handed." Nicholas Temperley in Grove Music Online.…

Four volumes. Six volumes bound in 4, containing 24 parts, complete. A popular and profitable collection illustrated by Isaac Cruikshank. 12mo. (161x105mm), with an engraved general titlepage in each of the 6 vols., & in the 24 parts an engraved vignette titlepage to each part with an engraved frontispiece. [making 24 plates]. A complete set of James Roach's popular poetical miscellany, with fine illustrations by Isaac Cruikshank, issued in twenty-four monthly parts. What began with a one-off publication at the end of 1792 (Evening Reflections at Westminster Abbey) quickly turned into a profitable series. Four volumes bound in full contemporary polished calf, gilt dentelles, spines gilt ruled with vol. nos. stamped direct & gilt motif in compartments, with red leather title labels lettered 'Beauties of Modern Poets', brown flecked edges, closed tear to frontispiece & vignette titlepage of vol. 1 with frontispiece & titlepage to Part 18 foxed & browned, otherwise sound, tight & very good especially considering the haphazard production & marketing of Roach's Beauties of the Poets.Roach, James (1753/4-1832?), bookseller. Some 130 entries are listed in the ESTC as 'J. Roach' or 'I. Roach' as a printer, publisher, or bookseller. From his shop, at 5 Little Russell Court (also known as Vinegar Yard), London - near the Drury Lane theatres - Roach sold prompt-book plays, odd volumes, children's anthologies, and jest and song books. The popularity of topical collections and fashionable illustration led him to conceive 'Roach's Beauties of the Poets' (1791-2), containing sentimental and religious verse from Addison, Roscommon, Pope, Young, Akenside, Goldsmith, Gray, Milton, Dryden and others. Reissued in six volumes in 1793 and 1794, this was one of the first part-publications. It appeared monthly in a series of twenty-four eight-page pamphlets, sequenced, footnoted, and adorned with a vignette and engraving. Roach and Cruikshank were close friends, with a shared passion for the stage (Roach's shop was opposite the Theatre Royal).…