[Collection of acting editions of English plays in five volumes]

Contents of volume one: George Geith / Reeve -- The village nightingale / Craven -- Honour / Reed -- Ticket-of-leave man / Taylor -- Used up / Mathews -- My wife's out / Rodwell -- A rough diamond / Buckstone -- She stoops to conquer / Goldsmith -- George Geith / Reeve -- The lady of Lyons / Bulwer-Lytton -- The critic / Sheridan -- The discreet princess / Planche -- Extremes meet / Field -- The invisible prince / Planche -- The hypocrite / Bickerstaff -- The yellow dwarf and the King of the gold mines / Planche -- Rappings and table movings / Paul.

Contents of volume two: Times tries all / Courtney -- The good woman in the wood / Planche -- Deaf as a post / Poole -- Cool as a cucumber / Jerrold -- Good for nothing / Buckstone -- Slasher and crasher! / Morton -- Twice killed / Oxenford -- Done on both sides / Morton -- A rough diamond / Buckstone -- The old curiosity shop / Stirling -- The gamester / Moore -- Pure gold / Marston -- The pride of the market / Planche -- The porter's knot / Oxenford -- Plot and passion / Taylor Lang -- Susan Hopley / Pitt -- Sweethearts and wives / Kenney -- Simpson and Co. / Poole.

Contents of volume three: Eustache Baudin / Courtney -- Delicate ground / Dance -- Dandelion's dodges / Williams -- The Colleen bawn / Boucicault -- The colleen bawn settled at last / Brough Halliday -- Nothing venture nothin win / Coyne -- Old gooseberry -- The sergeant's wedding / Wilks -- Songs and duets in 'The doge of Duralto' / Brough -- Blue beard! / Byron -- Our wife / Morton -- Our wife (another issue) / Morton -- The happy man / Lover -- Tom Moddy's secret / Bayly -- A wonderful woman / Dance -- War to the knife / Byron -- Who speaks first? / Dance -- The wife's secret / Love -- Victims / Taylor -- The muleteer of Toledo / Morton.

Contents of volume four: Good for evil / Augier -- Perfection / Bayly -- Louis XI / Markwell -- The sailor of France / Johnstone -- Camilla's husband / Phillips -- George Geith / Reeve -- All that glitters / Morton -- Aurora Floyd / Hazlewood -- The artful dodge / Blanchard -- Asmodeus / Archer -- Aggravating Sam / Mathews -- A bachelor of arts / Mardwicke -- The bonnie fish wife / Selby -- Blow for blow / Byron -- Betsy Baker / Morton -- A handsome husband / Planche -- Guy Mannering / Terry -- Good for nothing / Buckstone -- Gilderoy / Murray.

Contents of volume five: Meg's diversion / H. T. Craven -- Woodcock's little game / Morton -- Writing on the wall / Morton -- The rivals / Sheridan -- The old story / Byron -- The orange girl / Leslie and Rowe -- The King's wagon / Wilks -- The poor gentleman / Colman -- Make your wills / Mayhew Smith -- Lord Darnley / Wilks -- The Lancers / Vernon -- Larkin's love letters / Williams -- Lucille / Bernard -- The man with the iron mask / Lucas.