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Dryden, John and Lee, Nathaniel.
Oedipus: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke’s Theatre.
Publisher: printed for Richard Bentley in Russel-Street in Covent-Garden, London;
Date of Publication: 1692
Stock Code: 14900
Stated fourth edition. Quarto, pp., [vi], 71, [1]. Sig. A-K⁴ (-K4). Collated and complete. Disbound; gathered on five cords; traces of skiver to spine. Small ink numeral in contemporary hand to title-page. Nick to fore-edge of title-page, area of loss approximately 5cm to corner of A2, affecting text. A fair copy. Dryden and Lee’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus. The publisher, Richard Bentley, earned the moniker ‘novel Bentley’ due to his penchant for publishing roman à clefs (Dunton, Life). He had previously published Dryden’s Religio Laici (1682). £50.00