1927-1928 The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh

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Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in four volumes. Limited to one thousand and three hundred copies of which this is number five hundred and forty-three. The works of Sir John Vanbrugh, an English architect, dramatist and herald, best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, who wrote two controversially outspoken Restoration comedies. Volume one contains an introduction, The Relapse, The Provok'd Wife, A Short Vindication of The Relapse and the Provok'd Wife from Immorality and Prophaneness. Volume two contains Aesop: Parts One and Two, The Pilgrim, The False Friend, and The Country House. Volume three contains The Confederacry, The Mistake, A Journey to London, and The Provok'd Husband. Volume four contains The Letters, with a portrait frontispiece and a double-paged plan of Castle Howard. The plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée, a British academic who was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds. The letters edited by Geoffrey Fairbank Webb, a British art historian, Slade Professor of Fine Art and head of the Monuments and Fine Arts section of the Allied Control Commission during the Second World War.