Complete in five volumes. One of an edition limited to 400 sets, reprinted in five volumes from the 1872-1874 edition. All five volumes uniformly bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. 8vos. An ex university library set, with usual library markings of small sticker and call number taped on spines, stamps and annotations on the front endpapers and small stamp and minor annotations on the title and copyright pages. Cloth is a little rounded at corners and spine ends and sunned over spines. Other than the stated library markings, internally the volumes are neat, clean, bright and tight.
Sir William Davenant (or D'Avenant) (1606-1668) was a playwright and poet, and one of the rare dramatists in Renaissance theatre whose active career spanned both pre and post English civil war periods. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1638, replacing Ben Johnson. Davenant was reportedly the godson of fellow playwright William Shakespeare and rumoured to have been his biological son.
