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.2)
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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.2)
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/267893
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 U7 apparently supplied from another copy. With bookplate of James Edmondstoune of Newtoun
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