The Posthumous Dramatick Works of the Late Richard Cumberland, Esq.

CUMBERLAND, Richard.

Item Number: 139722

London: Printed For G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, 1813.

First edition of this rare Cumberland title. Royal octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Bookplates.

English dramatist Richard Cumberland rote much but has been remembered most for his plays and memoirs. His plays, published and unpublished, totaled fifty-four. About 35 of these are ordinary plays, to which have been added four operas and a farce; about half are comedies. His favorite mode was the "sentimental comedy," which combines domestic plots, rhetorical enforcement of moral precepts, and comic humor.