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Dryden, [John]. Love Triumphant; or, Nature Will Prevail. A Tragi-Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Their Majesties Servants. Jacob Tonson, London, 1694.

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.

Dryden, John. LOVE TRIUMPHANT; or Nature will Prevail: A Tragi-Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theater Royal, by their Majesties Servants.. Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, London, 1694.

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.

John Dryden. Love Triumphant; Or, Nature Will Prevail. A Tragi-Comedy.. Jacob Tonson, London, 1694.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Description: Quarto, disbound into wrappers, few headlines shaved, very nice and complete with the rare half title, which carries the ads on verso for Tonson's four volume nonce collection of Dryden's Works, as well as listing the contents of each volume. One of Dryden's final dramatic works, Love Triumphant helped bring the young Congreve to public notice by printing his contribution to the song on pages 73-74. Wing D 2302; MacDonald Dryden, 93a; the first and only lifetime edition.

Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.

Dryden, John. Love Triumphant; Or, Nature Will Prevail. a Tragi-Comedy. As it is Acted At the Theatre Royal, by Their Majesties Servants.. Jacob Tonson, London, 1694.

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.

DRYDEN, [John] [1631-1700].. Love Triumphant; Or, Nature will Prevail. A Tragi-Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, By Their Majesties Servants.. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1694., 1694.

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 Dryden’s 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. ◆Light 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.