HARRIS, BRICE (INTRODUCTION) — Restoration Plays (Modern Library #287. 1)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0872201791. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1953 (confirmed by list of ML titles at rear of volume). A collection of eight plays from the English Restoration period including: The Rehearsal, by George Villiers; The Country Wife, by William Wyncherly; The Man of Mode, by George Etherege; All for Love, by John Dryden; Venice Preserved, by Thomas Otway; The Relapse, by John Vanbrugh; The Way of the World, by William Congreve; The Beaux' Strategem, by George Farquhar. Selected by Brice Harris who has provided an introduction. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 365 titles in ML catalog. ML #287.1. --- With ticked titles at t.o.c, else a very well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and otherwise unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket with chafing to extremities, else bright, intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xx, 674, [8, ads] pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .