The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy

by John Banks

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

Later edition. 8 , 62, 2 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Three quarter brown calf and marbled boards, front cover detached, title page spotted. Macdonald 118 first edition . Item #212565 Banks was a lawyer turned playwright, who wrote One of the most consistently popular tragedies on the London stage Sutherland English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century . Dryden contributed the Prologue and the Epilogue

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