HAZLITT, William. A View of the English Stage; or, a Series of Dramatic Criticisms. London: Robert Stodart, 1818. First edition, 8vo (222 x 136mm.) 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Spotting to first leaves, occasional browning, lacking half-title, blanks replaced.) Near contemporary brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two brown morocco lettering pieces to the spine, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed, endpapers replaced). Provenance: John Burne (gift inscribed to on title, dated 1870); Alex Grant (gift inscribed from on title); Philip D. (gift inscribed to on initial blank, dated 1943); James Birdie (gift inscribed from on the initial blank). – And a further four volumes (Bernardin Saint-Pierre’s ‘Paul and Virginia’, 1819, 8vo, and Henry Richard Lord Holland’s ‘Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio’, 1806, 8vo, and [Thomas Kitson Cromwell’s] ‘The Lives of Eminent and Remarkable Characters Born or Long Resident in the Counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk’, 1820, 8vo) (5).