PELICAN DEVICE TO SPINE The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote, Esq; to which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

Full tree calf; old repairs to the outer hinges (not affecting the endpapers). Pelican device framing the green spine labels relating to an unidentified family - ownership inscription of ‘W M Newton’ (?) on the front pastedown. Both volumes very good; in this collection each play has separate pagination and register and a separate dated titlepage: 'Taste', 5th ed., 1781; 'The Englishman in Paris', 4th ed., 1783; 'The author', new ed., 1782; 'The Englishman returned from Paris', new ed., 1788; 'The knights', 1787; 'The Mayo of Garratt', new ed., 1783 or 1797; 'The orators', new ed., 1788; 'The minor', 10th ed., 1789; 'The lyar', 1786; 'The patron', new ed., 1794; 'The commissary', 1788; 'The lame lover', 1787; 'The bankrupt', new ed., 1782; 'The cozeners', 1795; 'The maid of Bath', 1795; 'The nabob', 1795; 'The Devil upon two sticks', 1794; 'A trip to Calais', 1795./ Price on title-page: "Price bound fifteen shillings".