A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature [Two Volume Set]

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy / Blackwood / Cumming, 1815. Very Good. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster Row; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1815. First English Edition. Two volumes; octavos; contemporary half dark blue polished calf over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spines in five compartments; xv,[1],391,[1]; iv,390pp. Light wear and toning to boards, scattered foxing, mid-19th century ownership ex libris of a J. Howard Stough to front pastedowns, else a Very Good, quite attractive set.

Collected lectures by the German poet ranging from the essence of tragedy and comedy to the ancient Greeks, Roman theatre, French theater, English and Spanish theater, and finally German theater.