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DRYDEN, JOHN; and DAVENANT, WILLIAM, Sir. The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island. A Comedy. [8], 81, [3] pages, including final blank. 4to, 216x161 mm, late 19th-century 1/2 red morocco gilt by Riviere & Son; occasional minor marginal foxing and soiling, repaired clean tear and small hole in Prologue leaf affecting a few letters on recto, blank lower outer corner off B2. Bookplate of E. M. Cox; signature of William Augustus White dated 1920. London: T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1674
Second edition of the 1670 Dryden-Davenant adaptation of the Shakespeare play, and first with operatic revisions by Thomas Shadwell. Bartlett 161 note; Jaggard, page 462; Macdonald 73b; Wing S2945.
