Drama & the Theatre. [Vanbrugh (John)], A Short Vindicat...

Hammer

£50

Drama & the Theatre. [Vanbrugh (John)], A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife, From immorality and Prophaneness (sic), first edition, London: Printed for H. Walwyn, at the Three Legs in the Poultrey (sic), against Stocks-Market, 1698, black-ruled title-page, half-title, [ii], 79pp, clean and crisp copy, later 20th c institutional buckram, their markings and plates to pastedown only, but for a discreet title blind-stamp, 8vo, [Wing V59]


Vanbrugh's scarce contribution to the pamphlet war provoked by Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, published the same year.


Provenance: Anne Howard, contemporary early female ownership inscription to title.