AUTHORSHIP AND APPROPRIATION. Writing for the Stage in England, 1660-1710.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With ten black and white illustrations. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine, bright and fresh dustwrapper, which is lightly creased to the front panel, and with a small stain to the underside of the tail of the spine (which is very slightly visible to the printed side).

'Authorship and Appropriation is the first full-length study of the cultural and economic status of playwriting in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and argues that the period was a decisive one in the transition from Renaissance conceptions of authorship towards modern ones' (publisher's blurb).