Author: Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher et al.
Title: Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont and James Fletcher, Gentlemen. All in One Volume. Published by the Author's Original Copies, the Songs to Each Play Being Added. Si Quid Habent Veri Vatum Praesagia, Vivam
Description: London, Printed by J. Macock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679. Second edition. Leather bound. Full speckled and panelled brown leather covers with 5 raised bands, gilt tooling and applied red leather label in second compartment of spine. New endpapers. Title-page (no frontis), 4 sheets of Contents and testamonials, 578 pp. pp. 1- 557. Does not appear to be the second collected edition, lacking woodcut printers' devices on title-page; therefore it must be the first collected edition (still different than the 1647 edition). This is the second edition, revised edition from the first printing (1647) , as stated in the Booksellers Note after title-page. Manuscript note at end of "The Elder Brother" and other minor amounts of marginalia. Page 143 numbered as 135. Bottom corner of page 285 gone, affecting 8 lines of text on 285 amd 9 on 286; Pages 366/365 bound backwards (possibly, 366 comes first, with page number on spine side of sheet, same with 365, which follows. After p. 578, the pagination re-starts with p. 1 and is thus noted: second page 11 mis-numbered as 1; page 15 un-numbered; pp 59/60 on two consecutive sheets, each with unique text followed by 63/64, etc. p. 85 small corner lower right torn off, no loss of text; p. 106 followed by repeating numbers 91-94, then p. 11 onward no repeating text; p. 201 mis-numbered as 102; p. 207 mis-numbered as 107; p. 292 is 293, and 293 is 292; significant ear with significant loss pp. 295/296 possibly 19 lines of text both sides affected; p. 297 mis-numbered 304; p. 431 mis-numbered 442; p. 459 mis-numbered 462; Sheets 469/470 and 471/472 have significant but ancient replacements to lower corners with manuscript continuation of the missing text. A few minor tears in page edges early on mostly; p. 475 followed by 452, 453, rsumes at 479 with minor loss to edges of sheets and manuscript replacement of lost printed text; minor loss of edge text at bases of pp. 485/486 and 487/488 due to tear with loss; pp. 501/502 and 503/504 have minor tears at lower edge with very minor text loss; p. 545/546 replaced with a manuscript copy on period paper in a period hand; same with pp.551/552. Contents of this copy are: The maids tragedy -- Philaster, or, Love lies a bleeding -- A king and no king -- The scornful lady : a comedy -- The custom of the country -- The elder brother : a comedy -- The Spanish curate : a comedy -- Wit without money : a comedy -- The beggars bush : a comedy -- The humorous lieutenant a tragi-comedy -- The faithful shepherdess -- The mad lover : a tragi-comedy -- The loyal subject : a tragi-comedy -- Rule a wife, and have a wife -- The laws of Candy : a tragi-comedy -- The false one : a tragedy -- The little French lawyer : a comedy -- The tragedy of Valentinian -- Monsieur Thomas : a comedy --The chances : a comedy -- The bloody brother; or, Rollo : a tragedy -- The wild-goose chase : a comedy -- A wife for a month : a tragi-comedy -- The lovers progress : a comedy -- The pilgrim : a comedy -- The captain : a comedy -- The prophetess : a tragical history --The Queen of Corinth : a tragi-comedy -- Bonduca : a tragedy -- The knight of the burning pestle --Loves pilgrimage : a comedy -- The double marriage : a tragedy -- The maid in the mill : a comedy -- The knight of Malta -- Loves cure, or, The martial maid : a comedy -- Women pleased : a comedy -- The night-walker, or, The little thief : a comedy -- The womans prize, or, The tamer tam'd : a comedy -- The island princess : a tragi-comedy -- The noble gentleman : a comedy -- The coronation : a comedy --The coxcomb : a comedy -- The sea-voyage : a comedy --Wit at several weapons : a comedy -- The fair maid of the inn: a tragi-comedy -- Cupid's revenge -- The two noble kinsmen -- The tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret -- The woman-hater -- Nice valour : a comedy -- The honest man's fortune : a tragi-comedy -- The masque of the gentlemen of Grays-Inne and the Inner-Temple -- Four plays or moral representations in one : Triumph of honor ; Triumph of love ; Triumph of death ; Triumph of time. This edition includes the first folio publication of The Two Noble Kinsmen, attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. The play was first published in quarto format in 1634; it was not included in any of the of the folio editions of Shakespeare's works; nor was it included in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's works (1647); the Shakespearian attribution is generally agreed upon by scholars. Second folio edition, providing eighteen plays that did not appear in the first collected edition. Binding VG+, recent replacement with period beauty and skill. See description below for minutae of pagination and faults. LACKS FRONTIS called for in some records, and has a variant title-page indicating an early printing, which may explain lack of frontis.

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