Five Miracle Plays, Or Scriptural Dramas

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [2], f. [2] (blank), f. [1], pp. 16, f. [1] (blank), pp. [16] (last blank), ff. [2] (blank), pp. 16, ff. [2] (blank), pp. [8], 16, f. [1], pp. iv, 20 (last blank), 4, ff. [2] (blank), 44, ff. [2] (blank), 24, ff. [2] (blank), 40 (last blank), ff. [2] (blank). Each play has its own pagination. The main title page is misbound after the first play. "Only twenty-five copies printed." Bookplate of Robert S. Pirie inside front cover. Dobell catalogue clipping tipped in front. “Gift of John Fleming, 6 Oct. ‘63” inscribed on front free endpaper. Stamped “John P. Woodbury, 348 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.” on front flyleaf. Includes a glossary to all five plays.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The collected miracle plays, originally issued separately.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This volume belonged to Sir Frederick Madden and contains The Harrowing of Hell. A Miracle Play. Now first printed from MS. Harl, 2253; The Sacrifice of Abraham. A Miracle Play. Now first printed from MS Trin. Coll. Dublin; The Adoration of the Shepherds. A Miracle Play. Now first printed from the Towneley MS; The Marriage of the Virgin. A Miracle Play. Now first printed from MS. Cotton, Vesp: D. VIII; The Advent of Antichrist A Miracle Play. Now first printed from The Duke of Devonshire’s MS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">It also includes another copy, proof sheets, with numerous corrections of The Harrowing of Hell. A Miracle Play. Printed from the Auchinleck Manuscript (from a MS. in the Advocate's Library, Edinburgh, Edited by David Laing, pp. 16); three autograph letters from John Payne Collier to Madden, with manuscript remarks by the latter on Collier's inaccuracies, and on his obstinate adherence to his own notions, after Madden had pointed out his mistakes to him; an autograph letter from David Laing to Madden, respecting his edition of The Harrowing of Hell; a copy of a letter from Madden to Laing on the subject of his edition of The Harrowing of Hell.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See B. Dobell, Catalogue of books printed for private circulation. London, 1906, p. 30-31; A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A26.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_6239857" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>