A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity upon this Argument

by Jeremy Collier

$150 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

London: Printed for S. Keble, 1698. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 16 288pp. Bound in full brown diced calf, rebacked by Jon Robbins. Double-framed title page. The beginning of the so-called 'Collier Controversy,' called the most serious attack on the stage by Lowe. 'It was replied to by Congreve & other dramatists but Collier was completely victorious... proved by ...the marked improvement in decency which it

• Binding: Hardcover

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