The Mermaid Series.
The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.
Literal Reproductions of the Old Text.
Printed on thin Paper. Small Crown 8vo, each Volume containing about 500 Pages and an Etched Frontispiece.
Cloth, 2s. 6d. net.Leather, 3s. 6d. net.
- The Best Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Edited, with Critical Memoir and Notes, by Havelock Ellis; and containing a General Introduction to the Series by John Addington Symonds.
- The Best Plays of Thomas Otway. Introduction and Notes by the Hon. Roden Noel.
- The Complete Plays of William Congreve. Edited by Alex. C Ewald.
- The Complete Plays of Richard Steele. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by G. A, Aitken.
- The Best Plays of Ben Jonson. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Brinsley Nicholson and C. H. Herford. 3 vols.
- The Best Plays of James Shirley. With Introduction by Edmund Gosse.
- The Best Plays of Thomas Shadwell. Edited by Georce Saintsbury.
- The Complete Plays of William Wycherley. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by W. C. Ward.
- The Best Plays of John Ford. Edited by Havelock Ellis.
- The Best Plays of Webster and Tourneur. With an Introduction and Notes, by John Addington Symonds.
- The Best Plays of Thomas Heywood. Edited by A. W. Verity. With Introduction by J. A. Symonds.
- The Best Plays of John Dryden. Edited by George Saintsbury. 2 vols.
- The Best Plays of Thomas Middleton. With an Introduction by Algernon Charles Swinburne. 2 vols.
- Nero and other Plays. Edited by H. P. Horne, Arthur Symons, A. W. Verity, and H. Ellis.
- The Best Plays of Thomas Dekker. Notes by Ernest Rhys.
- The Best Plays of Philip Massinger. With Critical and Biographical Essays and Notes by Arthur Simons. 2 vols.
- The Best Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. With Introduction and Notes by J. St Loe Strachey. 2 vols.
- The Best Plays of George Chapman. Edited by William Lyon Phelps.
- The Select Plays of Sir John Vanbrugh. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by A. E. H. Swain.
The Times, 20th November 1903, in a Review of a column and a quarter, says—
"Mr Fisher Unwin is re-issuing his "Mermaid Series' of Old Dramatises in a very attractive form. The volumes are light in the band and will go easily into the pocket; they are printed in clear type on thin paper; ideal companions for the student who seeks his pleasure where the Saint found it, 'in angulo cum libello.'"
The Pall Mall Gazette says—
"It is impossible to let the completion of this re-issue go by without congratulating every one concerned, including the reader, on the possibility of obtaining the cream of England's dramatic literature in this convenient form."
T. Fisher Unwin, Publisher, 1, Adelphs Terrace, London, W.C.
