THE TRAGEDY OF THE LADY JANE GRAY (1754); ULYSSES: A Tragedy (1735); THE TEMPEST (1736); THE TRAGEDY OF JANE SHORE (1748) 4 PLAYS BOUND IN 1 VOLUME

Small 8vo. (approx. 17 x 10cm) hardback in original 18th Century full calf, raised bands and decorative gilt to spine and boards. 69pp., 1pp. Epilogue, 2pp. Prologue; 81pp., 2pp. Epilogue, with engraved Frontispiece; 160pp. with engraved Frontispiece; 80pp. 2pp. Epilogue, 2pp. Advertisements. Cast Lists to first, second and last plays. Contemporary ink inscription and scribbles to front pastedown. Occasional light foxing and browning. Small loss of lower corner of Advertisement leaf of second play. Small ink scribbles around decorative vignette in Dedication of last play. Binding lightly rubbed and worn. 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.