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WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY SHAKESPEARE: Fifty comedies and tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen. All in one volume. Published by the authors original copies, the songs to each play being added.
by Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Fletcher, John (1579-1625)
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- Hardcover
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London: London: Printed by J. Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679. Full leather. Very Good. Marshall, William. First edition thus; folio; [10], 280, 279-578, 557, [1]pp. In period style nineteenth century full panelled calf (with only the lightest of wear), spine with five raised spine bands, gilt lettered red morocco spine label to second compartment, blind decoration to remaining compartments. Complete with portrait frontispiece. Catalogue of Plays on A4 with early ink page numbers added, short closed tear to leaf 3C1 not affecting text and leaf 3N1 touching a few letters without loss, small burn hole on leaf 3O3 not affecting text, small and mainly marginal wormhole to final few leaves just touching the odd letter, very occasional light spots and stains with unobtrusive feint damp stain to inner margin of final few quires, without 4A4 (blank leaf). Overall a very attractive example. The first collection of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays appeared in 1647; this subsequent 1679 edition contained another 18 plays including The Two Noble Kinsmen, substantial parts of which modern scholarship has concluded to be the work of Shakespeare, with the rest by John Fletcher. (The consensus is that Shakespeare wrote Act I, scenes 1-3; Act II, scene 1; Act III, scene 1; Act V, scene 1, lines 34-173, and scenes 3 and 4). The play was omitted from Shakespeare's First and subsequent folios, was first printed as a quarto in 1634, with its next appearance in this 1679 collection. Splendid well bound copy of this large thick folio. Wing B1582; Gregg III, p. 1018; ESTC R13766.
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- Title
- WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY SHAKESPEARE: Fifty comedies and tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen. All in one volume. Published by the authors original copies, the songs to each play being added.
- Author
- Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Fletcher, John (1579-1625)
- Illustrator
- Marshall, William
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed by J. Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1679
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- william shakespeare john fletcher francis beaumont ben jonson christopher marlowe john webster knight burning pestle two noble kinsmen bard tragedies tragedy comedies comedy restoration renaissance drama plays theater
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- Antiquarian books; Antiquarian Classics and Renaissance; Antiquarian English Literature;
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