The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher : In ten volumes. Collated with all the former editions, and corrected. With notes critical and explanatory (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher : In ten volumes. Collated with all the former editions, and corrected. With notes critical and explanatory (v.1)
Classmark: BC Lt BEA
Creator(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)
Additional creator(s): Fletcher, John (1579-1625) (Other); Theobald, Mr Lewis (1688-1744) (Other); Seward, Mr (Other); Simpson, Sidrach (1600?-1655) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1750
Language: English
Size and medium: 10 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/267892
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017588589705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Preface by Thomas Seward.
Engraved portraits of the authors, by George Vertue, as frontispiece to vol.1.
Each volume has a separate t.p.
Date in volume 7 misprinted "MDCCI."
Errata in each volume, either on t.p. verso or final page.
In vol. 1, sigs. A7 and N3 are cancels; vol. 2, sig. U7 is a cancel; vol. 5, sigs. L2,3 and L4,5 are cancels.
Extra leaf inserted after L6 in vol. 5, with a dedication by Sympson to Willoughby, earl of Abingdon, baron Norreys.
Contents: Vol.1. The maid's tragedy. Philaster; or, Love lies a bleeding. A king and no king. The scornful lady. -- vol.2. The custom of the country. The elder brother. The Spanish curate. Wit without money. The beggar's bush. -- vol.3. The humourous lieutenant. The faithful shepardess. The mad lover. The loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife. -- vol.4. The laws of Candy. The false one. The little French lawyer. Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas. -- vol.5. The chances. The bloody brother. The wild-goose chase. A wife for a month. The lover's progress. The pilgrim. -- vol.6. The captain. The prophetess. The Queen of Corinth. Bonduca. The knight of the burning pestle. -- vol.7. Love's pilgrimage. The double marriage. The maid in the mill. The Knight of Malta. Love's cure; or, The martial maid. -- vol.8. Women pleas'd. The night walker; or, The little thief. The woman's prize; or the tamer tam'd. The island princess. The noble gentleman. -- vol.9. The coronation. The sea-voyage. The coxcomb.
Wit and several weapons. The fair maid of the inn. Cupid's revenge. -- vol.10. The two noble kinsmen. Thierry and Theodoret. The woman hater. The nice valour; or Passionate madman. The honest man's fortune. A masque. -- Four plays or Moral representations in one.
Indexed in: ESTC T139208.
Additional description
Cancel sig. A7: the cancelland has been torn, but not removed, and the new leaf is loose. Sig. e5 has been torn in the same way as A7, but there is no cancel leaf. Cancel N3 apparently supplied from another copy. With bookplate of James Edmondstoune of Newtoun
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