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BEAUMONT, FRANCIS. 1584-1616, & JOHN FLETCHER. 1579-1625. Comedies and Tragedies. London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson & Humphrey Moseley, 1647.
12 February 2012, 09:00 PST
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BEAUMONT, FRANCIS. 1584-1616, & JOHN FLETCHER. 1579-1625.
Comedies and Tragedies. London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson & Humphrey Moseley, 1647.
Folio (311 x 195 mm). A4 a-c4 d-e2 f4 g2 B-K4 L2 2A-2S4 3A-3X4 4A-4I4 5A-5R4 5S6 5T-5X4 6A-6K4 6L6 7A-7C4 7D2 7E-7G4 8A-8C4 *8D2 8D-8F4. Printed in double columns. Each play paginated separately. Frontispiece portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall. Half brown calf over marbled boards. A few instances of repair, some browning and stray marks, early marginalia including a blank leaf inserted between 5I3 and 5I4, on which is written the cast of characters to the following play, "The Knight of Malta," new endpapers, covers worn, spine rubbed.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, second state of the frontispiece. Pforzheimer 53.
Folio (311 x 195 mm). A4 a-c4 d-e2 f4 g2 B-K4 L2 2A-2S4 3A-3X4 4A-4I4 5A-5R4 5S6 5T-5X4 6A-6K4 6L6 7A-7C4 7D2 7E-7G4 8A-8C4 *8D2 8D-8F4. Printed in double columns. Each play paginated separately. Frontispiece portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall. Half brown calf over marbled boards. A few instances of repair, some browning and stray marks, early marginalia including a blank leaf inserted between 5I3 and 5I4, on which is written the cast of characters to the following play, "The Knight of Malta," new endpapers, covers worn, spine rubbed.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, second state of the frontispiece. Pforzheimer 53.