A group of six eighteenth-century printings of plays, bound together, including works by Shakespere and Congreve. London:

Includes the following: Philips, Ambrose, The Distrest Mother. A Tragedy, London: T. Caslong [et al.[, 59 pp., frontispiece; Banks, John, The Happy Favourite; or the Earl of Essex. A Tragedy., printed for I. Hawes, 70, [2] pp.; Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, printed for Woodfall, 1868, 72 ppl.' Shakespeare, William, The History of King Lear, printed for Noble, 1771, 71 pp.; Congreve, William, The Mourning Bride, Printed for S. Bladon, 1768, 71 pp.;; Shakespeare, William, Macbeth, printed for Woodfall, 1768, 68, [4] pp.; All of these are later editions, but the compilation is a fascinating picture of what plays were popular in London in (truncated) the 1760s and 1770s. . The six plays bound together in contemporary calf, rebacked. Corners rubbed. Some offsetting from plates. Contemporary armorial bookplate (John Beale). Also, bookplate of anthropologist Frances Emma Watkins, plus another ownership signature: "L. Watkins, Denver, Colo., 1873." A very good copy with interesting provenance. Details about library holdings of individual titles available upon request. Frances Emma Watkins (1899 – 1987), was born in Colorado and attended the University of Denver. After graduating with specializations in archaeology and anthropology in 1929, Watkins joined Isabel Kelly and Eva Horner in New Mexico on what was possibly the first excavation directed by an all-female team. Later, Watkins worked as a curator at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, where she managed the museum's archives. (Inventory #: 17764)