EDWARD AND ELEONORA: A Tragedy (1739); GUSTAVUS VASA, THE DELIVERER OF HIS COUNTRY: A Tragedy (1739); THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF GUSTAVUS VASA (1739); THE MOURNFUL NUPTIALS, or LOVE THE CURE OF ALL WOES: A Tragedy; (1739); ANTIOCHUS: A New Tra

8vo. hardback in original 18th Century full calf, raised bands and decorative gilt to spine and boards. [8], 64pp.; viii, [2], 81pp., 4pp. Epilogue; 29pp.; 70pp., 2pp. Epilogue; [4], 68pp.; [4]83pp., 1pp. Epilogue. Cast Lists to first two and last plays. Contemporary ink number to front pastedown, initials to first title page and Author (Hawkins Browne) handwritten to title page of last play. Occasional light foxing and browning to some pages and slight offsetting from binding to prelims. Spine somewhat rubbed and worn and beginning to split at lower rear hinge. Overall a Good Copy. This is one volume of a large collection of uniformly bound mainly 18th century collections of plays (generally 4 or 5 per volume) from the collection of the Vaughan Jenkins family of the Manor of Priston in Somerset. They were mostly bought at the time of publication in London (c.1713 - 1765, but some as early as 1655) and uniformly bound. Many of the volumes have the initials MCJ (Mary Caroline Jenkins, 1731-1790) or ED (Elizabeth Davis, nee Jenkins, 1736-1810) who were the daughters of Elizabeth Jenkins (1712-1766) and William Jenkins (1688-1774), who became Lord of the Manor of Priston in 1757 when the family moved from London. These books all remained at Priston until being inherited by the uncle of the vendor of the collection.