Oxberry's Editions of Marlowe's Plays (Various),

Marlowe (Christopher)

Oxberry's Editions of Marlowe's Plays (Various),

Description: Seven works bound in one, a little dusty at the edges but a very pleasing volume; pp. 'vii' (i.e. vi), [2], 72, '45'-'47', [1], [2] remarks; xi, [1], 83, [1]; v, [1], 65, [1]; iv, [2], 83, [1]; [iv], 40; [4], 68; [4], 68, 12mo. untrimmed in mid nineteenth-century marbled paper covered boards, cloth spine, red label, gilt letered; paper rubbed, with loss to the lower board.

Publication Details: London: Published for the Proprietors by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall [...] C. Chapple [...] and sold by W. and J. Lowndes. 1818(-20).

Notes: After two centuries forgotten and mostly out of print, William Oxberry resurrected Chistopher Marlowe with these editions, which precede by nearly a decade the collected edition by William Pickering (3 vols 1926). Oxberry began editing and publishing all the plays individually, notably still including Lust's Dominion, which had been disattributed by the time Pickering's edition appeared. Oxberry had a competitor in the form of James Broughton, who also published an edition of Marlowe in 1818 (with C. Chappell junior, at the Royal Exchange). Oxberry criticised Broughton's edition, and it appear...moreAfter two centuries forgotten and mostly out of print, William Oxberry resurrected Chistopher Marlowe with these editions, which precede by nearly a decade the collected edition by William Pickering (3 vols 1926). Oxberry began editing and publishing all the plays individually, notably still including Lust's Dominion, which had been disattributed by the time Pickering's edition appeared. Oxberry had a competitor in the form of James Broughton, who also published an edition of Marlowe in 1818 (with C. Chappell junior, at the Royal Exchange). Oxberry criticised Broughton's edition, and it appears that the the present edition was indeed published first. The plays here are The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Dr Faustus, Lust's Dominion, and The Massacre at Paris, plus Oxberry's 1820 editions of Tamburlaine the Great (parts one and two). HIDE