Pamphlets Collection of plays and tracts, 17th-19th century including: [Vanbrugh, Sir John]. The Provok'd Wife: a Comedy as it is acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields. London: for Richard Wellington, 1698. 4to, early-20th-century morocco, bookplate of Duff Cooper (1890-1954, British politician), bound without half-title, spotting and browning, tape-repairs to K1 and K4 (the repairs extending into text in the latter, not affecting legibility) [ESTC R3704: eight copies in UK libraries; first published the previous year]; [Swift, Jonathan]. The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace, Paraphras'd and Address'd to Richard St--le, London: for A. Dodd, 1714. 4to, 20th-century sheep, browning [ESTC T35561; first published the previous year]; [Defoe, Daniel]. A New Discovery of an Old Intreague: a Satyr level'd at Treachery and Ambition: calculated to the Nativity of the Rapparee Plott, and the Modesty of the Jacobite Clergy. [London:] printed in the year 1691. First edition, 4to, 20th-century green morocco, retaining final blank (E4), slightly browned, closely trimmed at head, [ESTC R4948, four copies only in UK libraries]; Idem. A Word about a New Election, that the People of England may see the Happy Difference between English Liberty and French Slavery. [London]: printed in the year 1710. First edition, 8vo, modern boards, browning, closely trimmed at foot shaving a few catchwords [ESTC T70864]; Idem. An Essay upon Literature ... proving that the two Tables, written by the Finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first Writing in the World; and that all other Alphabets derive from the Hebrew. London: for Tho[mas] Bowles [and others], 1726. First edition, 8vo, c.1900 quarter morocco [ESTC T70337: eight copies in UK libraries]; Jonson, Ben. Horace, his Art of Poetrie, made English [extracted from The Workes, 1640]. [London: printed by Richard Bishop], 1640. Folio, modern boards, 29 pp., slightly browned, damp-staining; and approx. 25 others (these not collated), including William Whitehead, Elegies. With an Ode to the Tiber, 1757 (half-title, engraved title-vignette), Thomas Southern, Oroonoko, A Tragedy, 1735, William Grimston, The Lawyer's Fortune ... A Comedy, 1736, Thomas Arne, The Guardian Out-witted, 1764, Arthur Murphy, The Desert Island, a Dramatic Poem, 1760, and similar, mainly in modern wrappers or disbound, a theatrical sammelband (containing e.g. Macklin, Love a-la-Mode, 1784, Sheridan, The Duenna, 1784, Southern, Isabella or the Fatal Marriage ... altered by D. Garrick, 1785, etc., Dryden & Lee, Oedipus, 1784, etc.), and similar (approx. 30)