Comedies and tragedies
Francis Beaumont (Author), John Fletcher (Author), James Shirley (Editor), Humphrey Robinson (Publisher), Humphrey Moseley (Publisher), William Marshall (Engraver), George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
Print Book, English, 1647
Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard., London,, 1647
History
[52], 75, [1], 143, [1], 165, [3], 71, [1], 172, 92, 50 [i.e. 52], 48 [i.e. 52] pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 portrait (engraving) ; 33 cm
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The mad lover
The Spanish curate
The little French lawyer
The custome of the countrey
The noble gentleman
The captaine
The beggars bush
The coxcombe
The false one
The chances
The loyall subject
The lavves of Candy
The lovers progres
The island princes
The humorous lieutenant
The nice valour, or, The passionate mad-man
The maide in the mill
The prophetesse
The tragedie of Bonduca
The sea voyage
The double marriage
The pilgrim
The knight of Malta
The womans prize: or, The tamer tamed
Loves cure or, The martial maide
The honest mans fortune
The queene of Corinth
Women pleas'd
A wife for a moneth
Wit at severall weapons
The tragedie of Valentinian
The faire maid of the inne
Loves pilgrimage
The maske of the gentlemen of Grayes-Inne, and the inner temple
Foure playes (or morall representations) in one
Printed by at least 8 printers, see Pforzheimer catalogue
Includes all the plays not hitherto printed, except the Wild-goose chase, the manuscript of which was later recovered and which was printed in 1652
"The Epistle dedicatorie" is signed by John Lowin, Joseph Taylor, and eight others; "To the reader" is signed: Ja. Shirley, who is usually regarded as the editor
Initials; head- and tail- pieces
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fletcher signed Guliel. Marshall, fecit
Portrait known in two states. The first state reads "vates duplex" on the fourth line; the second state reads "Vates Duplex" and has "J. Berkenhead" engraved in smaller type
Various errors in pagination
Signatures: 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-C⁴ *8D² 8D-8F⁴
With: Fletcher, J. The wild-goose chase. London : Printed for Humpherey Moseley ..., 1652. Bound together subsequent to publication
LC copy imperfect: "and" misspelled "an" in author statement on t.p.; item no. 157 of the George Fabyan Collection