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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Disbound, text block only; small 4to (220x165mm); pp. [12], 74; (collation, [A]-[A4], a-[a2], B-L), lacking the last 6 leaves (pp. 75-82, or L2-M)2, but includes the half-title p., with ads on the verso (for 4 volumes of Dryden's works), as well as the songs by William Congreve. Two small chips on bottom edge of first leaf (half-title); small chip at fore-edge of first and second leaf; final leaf bound tight in the gutter, with repairs (text unscathed). The play is complete; the missing pages would have been the epilogue (36 lines).
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Dryden, John. Love Triumphant; or Nature Will Prevail. A Tragi-Comedy. Jacob Tonson, London, 1694.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small quarto, rebound in 1/4 red morocco over red cloth. Wear and rubbing to edges, light foxing and discoloration, a few pages more heavily browned, small tear to one page corner not touching any text, but a generally clean, unmarked copy internally. Lacking the half title. (viii), 82, (2)pp. Page 73 includes a poem by the up and coming William Congreve. Size: Quarto (4to). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 043060.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [x], 82 pages of text, [ii] Epilogue. Bound without the half-title page. Hardcover binding with leather spine and corners, and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine is moderately worn and rubbed. Minor staining and soiling scattered throughout text. There is a small tear to about 40 pages at the gutter, obviously made prior to binding. Minor marginalia on the final page of Epilogue. A few page numbers are shaved. John Dryden (1631-1700). First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$399.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Disbound. [10] (of 12) , 82 pages. Lacks half title, epilogue. Some staiins. ; quarto
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small 4to. Pp. (12); 82; (2). Verso of half-title page features an advertisement for "The Works of Mr. John Dryden in Four Volumes," also published by Tonson. Four-page dedication (to the Earl of Salisbury) follows the title page. Play is complete with only minor foxing throughout. No tears or wormholes, but bottom corner of last leaf shows slight wear. Else Very Good. Bound early 20th C. by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Binding Fine. The remarkable condition of the interior, devoid of wormholes and egregious foxing, is unusual and is thus worthy of the elegant binding in which it is contained. This is Dryden's final play, which is noted for the inclusion of a song by Congreve. Indeed, Dryden foresook the stage for the purpose of undertaking his translation of Virgil. A contemporary reference to the reception of this play can be found in "The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare," (1790, vol. I pt. II, p. 141)wherein a citation in a letter reveals "it was damned by the universal cry of the town, nemine contradicente but the conceited poet." Despite such criticism, the care taken in the preservation of the copy at hand indicates the importance of the play and Dryden's place in the pantheon of English literature. MACDONALD: "John Dryden A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana," 93a; WING: D 2302.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$832.50 + shipping
Description: small 4to. pp. 5 p.l., 82, [2]. lacking half-title. vellum (c1900), top edge gilt (covers worn, some foxing & browning throughout). the Huth copy with ex-libris. First Edition. One of Drydens last plays, Love Triumphant was a dismal failure. The song on L1r is by rising young playwright William Congreve, to whom Dryden bequeathed his dramatic mantle. Macdonald 93a. Wing D2362. NCBEL II 447. Woodward & McManaway 431-32.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
DRYDEN, JOHN. LOVE TRIUMPHANT; OR, NATURE WILL PREVAIL. Printed for Jacob Tonson, London, 1694.
Price: US$988.00 + shipping
Description: 217 x 165 mm. (8 1/2 x 6 1/2"). 6 p.l., 82 pp., [1] leaf. Early 20th century half blue morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine, gilt lettering. Front pastedown with the bookplate of Edmund William Gosse; free endpaper with book label of Marion C. Walker; a couple of leaves with small ink stamp of the Selbourne Library. Robert D. Hume, "The Development of English Drama in the late Seventeenth Century"; Macdonald 93a; ESTC R181. âLight wear to joints and extremities, text slightly foxed and spotted in places, a couple of ink smears, a few minor marginal losses and tears, but a very good copy overall, with no major condition issues, and far better than most copies of works like this one. This is an appealing copy of the final dramatic work by John Dryden (1631-1700), whose long and successful career as a poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright made him one of the giants of 17th century English literature. He became England's first Poet Laureate in 1668, and his production and influence were such that the final four decades of the century have become known generally as the Age of Dryden. Like a number of his other tragi-comedies, "Triumphant" alternates strictly between serious and comic scenes. Hume says the serious part of the play "drags" and involves an "implausible" conversion of a tyrannical father; the comic part is "mechanically seamy, and the marriage of the stupid Sancho to Dalinda, a previously unwed mother of two, is neither pleasing nor amusing." And it's too long. However, Hume asserts that the play "looks beyond the story to essentially philosophical issues. Dryden sets up a question: what is nature? He then proceeds to unfold an elaborate affirmation of faith in Divine Providence. . . . Thus 'Love Triumphant' is unworkable drama, but a most significant document in Dryden's intellectual development." The play was not especially well received, which may have encouraged Dryden to abandon writing for the stage in order to take on other projects, including his translation of the works of Virgil, published in 1697. Our copy comes with distinguished provenance. It was previously owned by the renowned critic, translator, and writer Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), who is credited with introducing the work of Ibsen to the British public. According to DNB, Gosse "became one of the most prolific and powerful writers of his time.".
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.