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

by John Banks

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

Later edition. 8 , 62, 2 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Disbound. Very good. Macdonald 118 first edition . Item #215217 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 to this historical tragedy, first printed in 1682, then 1685, 1693,

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