The Mermaid Series: The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists (23 volume set)

Havelock Ellis

London : Vizetelly & Co, 1887

23 volume set. Bound in publisher's orange - brown cloth, with ornate black filigree on spine and front covers. Generally good bindings and covers. The William Wycherly volume's internal binding is poor. Clean, unmarked pages. Steel engraved frontispiece portraits.  Top edges, front end page, half title have a Humanities stamp.  Some volumes have the medical bookplate of Dr. Walter Ralph Steiner (1870-1942). Handsome engraved bookplate of Amy Louise Steiner (1877 - 1966). 

Contents: Contents: V. 1. Christopher Marlowe. --v. 2. Thomas Otway. --v. 3. John Ford. --v. 4-5. Philip Massinger. --v. 6. Thomas Heywood. --v. 7. William Wycherly. --v. 8. Nero and other plays. --v. 9-10. Beaumont and Fletcher. --v. 11. William Congreve. --v. 12. Webster and Tourneur. --v. 13-14. Thomas Middleton. --v. 15. James Shirley. --v. 16. Thomas Dekker. --v. 17, 19-20. Ben Jonson. --v. 18. Richard Steele. --v. 21. Sir John Vanbrugh. --v. 22. George Chapman. --v. 23. George Farquhar. 

This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.