A Select Collection of Old English Plays / Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744

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A SELECT COLLECTION
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY ROBERT DODSLEY IN THE YEAR 1744.
FOURTH EDITION ,
NOW FIRST CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED, REVISED AND ENLARGED, WITH THE NOTES OF ALL THE COMMENTATORS AND NEW NOTES
BENJAMIN BLOM, INC.
New York
NOTICE.
Since the Preface to this Work appeared, a very important augmentation of the new matter has been decided on, and the following early Dramas, never hitherto reprinted, have already been transcribed for insertion in our series under their respective dates. All are of the greatest rarity; and each, in its own way, seemed to possess literary and illustrative value:—
Life and Death of Jack Straw, 1593.