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140 plays, issued separately, each with special title-page, engraved general title-page, representing a scene from the play, and front. showing an actor in a leading part. Most of the plays are preceded by biographical sketches of the authors, criticism of the play, etc. and dramatis personae, giving the names of the players
Each set is put together in different combinations of the 140 plays, making each sets' contents unique
Darlington copy: v.2. Spanish Fryar -- Boadice -- The minor -- The refusal or the ladies philosophy -- v.3. Fair Penitent -- Douglas a tragedy / by Nicholas Rowe -- Cato / by Joseph Addison -- Jane Shore / N. Rowe -- The Roman father / altered from W. Whitehead -- v.4. Every man in his humour / by Ben Jonson -- Suspicious husband / by Dr. Hoadly -- Grecian daughter /by Arthur Murphy -- Choleric man -- v.5. Cleone / by R. Dodsley -- Isabella or the fatal marriage -- She wou'd and she wou'd not or The kind imposter -- The discovery / by Mrs. Frances Sheridan -- v.6. Distrest Mother -- Earl of Essex/ by Henry Jones -- Medea / by Mr. Glover -- Gamsters -- Battle of Hastings -- v.7. Love makes a man / by Colley Cibber -- Alzira / by Aaron Hill -- School for wives / by Hugh Kelley -- School for lovers / by William Whitehead -- v.8. Maid of the mill /by Isaac Bickerstaff -- Rule a wife and have a wife / by Beaumont and Fletcher -- Careless husband /by Colley Cibber -- The revenge / Edward Young -- v.9. Orphan / Thomas Otway -- Country Lasses / Charles Johnson -- She stoops to conquer / Goldsmith -- Edward the black prince / W. Shirley -- v. 10. Beaux Stratagem / Geo. Farquhar -- The gamester / Edward Moore -- The double gallant / Colley Ciber -- Theodosius or the force of love / Nathaniel Lee -- v.11. Beggar's opera / John Gay -- The chances -- The miser / Henry Fielding -- The foundling / Edward Moore -- v.12. A bold stroke for a wife / Mrs. Centlivre -- All in the wrong / Arthur Murphy -- The brothers / Richard Cumberland -- Siege of Damascus / John Hughes -- v.13. Love in a village / Isaac Bickerstaff -- The country girl / David Garrick -- Conscious lovers / Richard Steele -- The recruiting officer / George Farquhar -- v.14. The fair quaker of deal / Charles Shadwell -- Tancred and sigismunda / James Thomason -- George Barnwell -- Clandestine marriage -- v.15. Venice preserved / Thomas Otway -- Lady Jane Gray / N. Rowe -- Oedipus / Dryden and Lee -- Ximena / Colley Cibber -- v.16. The busy body /Centlivre -- All for love / Dryden -- Constant couple / George Farquhar -- Carmelite --v.17. Zara / Aaron Hill -- The way to keep him / Arthur Murphy -- The good natured man / Goldsmith -- The Earl of Warwick / Dr. Franklin -- v.18. Philaster -- The profok'd husband / John Vanbrugh -- The fashionable lover / Richard Cumberland -- The Countess of Salisbury / Hall Hartson -- v.19. The mourning bride / Mr. Congedy --Oroonoko / Thomas Southern -- The West Indian / Ricahrd Cumberland -- King Charles I / William Havard -- v.20. The tender husband / Richard Steele -- The committee / Sir R. Howard -- The natural son / Richard Cumberland -- The Jealous wife / George Colman -- v.21 The school for fathers / Isaac Bickerstaff -- The hypocrite / Isaac Bickerstaff -- The wonder a woman keeps a secret / Mrs. Centlivre -- Amphitryon / Dr. Hawkesworth

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