THE GENTLE SHEPHERD; A Scots Pastoral-Comedy (1743); THE ARTFUL HUSBAND: A Comedy (1735); THE ATHEIST or THE SECOND PART OF THE SOLDIERS FORTUNE (1735); THE SOLDIERS FORTUNE: A Comedy (1735) 4 PLAYS BOUND IN 1 VOLUME

4 Plays bound in 1 Volume. 12mo. (approx. 17 x 10cm) hardback in full 18th century calf with raised bands and gilt rules and number 2 to spine, and gilt borders to boards. All edges speckled red. [2], ii, 65pp. plus 5pp. Glossary; 94pp. plus 2pp. Epilogues, with engraved Frontispiece; 118pp. plus 2pp. Epilogue, with engraved Frontispiece; 113pp. plus 2pp. Epilogue, with engraved Frontispiece. Cast Lists to second, third and fourth plays. Contemporary ink initials to ffep and occasional ink numbers to title pages or blanks. Ink blot to title page of first play. Title page and frontispiece of last play very tanned (please see photos). Occasional light foxing and browning to some pages. Rubbing and slight cracking to top surface of calf of spine. Slight loss to top edge of spine (please see photos). 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.