Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. lxxxix. Incomplete copy of John Dryden ‘Sir Martin Marr-all, or, The Feign’d Innocence’; [printed for Herringman, 1678]. pp.27-60 only (part of Act III and Act IV). Annotated for production. (247/15). 218 x 160mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xci. Prose translation from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, entitled ‘The Episod of Sophronia and Olindo in the Second Canto’; in a late seventeenth-century hand, with revisions. (247/5). 234 x 180mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcvi. ‘Patient Grissilda: A Musical Entertainment’; circa 1810 [watermark 1803]. Manuscript in two acts. (247/29). 205 x 170mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcviii. Incomplete autograph of ‘The Royal Wooing’; circa 1820s. The volume is untitled but involves the same characters as 83059; early 19th century. (247/28). 225 x 190mm. 1. f.1v. Opening verses of Act 1 scene I of 83059. 2. ff.2r-9r. Begins in Act 1 scene V...
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcii. ‘Antony and Cleopatra: an historical play’, printed by Dryden Leach, 1758. Annotated with notes for the printer and, in a different hand, for production; numbered 1677 on the cover (lot number from the sale of Charles Kemble’s library in 1821 where it was purc...
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. cvii. Notebook in George Lamb’s hand; early 19th cent. Containing biblical quotations, extracts from classical and English poets and unidentified poetry; notes on Catullus; legal notes. (247/33). 90 x 120mm.
Lamb Papers (Series II). Vol. xcv. Draft manuscript of ‘The Days of King Arthur or Fairy Land’, a play in two acts; circa 1800 [watermark, 1798]. Written in an unidentified hand with corrections and revisions by George Lamb. Folios 39-47 stuck together with sealing wax. (247/3). 320 x 205mm.