BAYLEY, Peter Esq., LUNN, Joseph, POOLE, John, EBSWORTH, Joseph, O'HARA, Kane, BEAUMONT & FLETCHER.

Cumberland's British Theatre, with Remarks, Biographical and Critical [...] Printed from the Acting Copies as Performed at the Theatres Royal London. Volume XII: Orestes in Argos, Hide and Seek, Tribulation, The Rival Valets, Roses and Thorns, Midas, & Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

London: John Cumberland, 2 Cumberland Terrace, Camden New Town. n.d. (c.1825). Half-bound leather. Marbled boards. Frontis. B/W illus. Boards rubbed, internal hinges cracked, front endpapers almost loose, some wear to corners, ex-libris plate to inside front cover. Apart from the odd foxing and stain, contents good.

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Book number: 58441

Keywords: britain british english drama dramatic literature theatre 19th nineteenth century

BEAUMONT, Francis, and FLETCHER, John

Beaumont & Fletcher Select Plays

London, Dent, 1966. Hardcover. Introduction by M.C. Bradbrook. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 475pp, 4pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only; small front pastedown ownership signature. Handsome and tight later printing of volumes #506, first published in this form in 1911, featuring a half dozen of this duo's plays. .

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Book number: 46184

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Keywords: Drama

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS; FLETCHER, JOHN

Beaumont & Fletcher: Select Plays (Everyman's Library #506)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1966. Hardcover. ISBN: 0460005065. A 1966 reprint of the 1911 issuance. A selection of six 17th-century plays by English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The two collaborated in the writing of two of the plays. With an introduction by M. C. Bradbrook. A glossary is included at rear of volume. Number 506 in Everyman's Library Drama series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full plum cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked "EL" in script at tail of spine; orange topstain. Volume wrapped in fuchsia dust jacket with black & white image of the two playwrights to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound, sturdy copy, though with prior owner's signature to half title and that person's notations to one play (The Burning Pestle). Jacket with chafing to extremities, mild sunning to spine & a few scratches, else bright, intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xiii, 475, 4, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 89353

Keywords: 0460005065 >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv >>Everyman's Library Editions

Beaumont; Fletcher

The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher; Collated with All the Fromer Editions, and Corrected; with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, by Various Commentators; and Adorned with Fifty-Four Original Engravings.

London, T. Evans and P. Elmsley, 1778. Leather. A ten volume set of works featuring the dramatic writing of the renaissance playwrights Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Complete in 10 volumes. Scarce to find a complete set. Featuring the dramatics works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The worked collaboratively on numerous plays including 'The Woman Hater', 'The Maid's Tragedy', and 'Love's Pilgrimage&apos. The pair began writing for children, and later progresses to writing for The King's Men, the group to which Shakespeare belonged for many years. There were believed to have lived together until Beaumont's marriage. The pairs creating relationship ended when Beaumont became ill in the early 17th century. John Fletcher in particular is well recognised as a successor of Shakespeare in regards to his position in the King's Men. After the death of Shakespeare, Fletcher would go on to write for the company until his own death in 1625. In total the set includes the plays, 'Wild-Goose Chase', 'Lovers' Progress', 'Double Marriage', 'Maid in the Mill', 'Tragedy of Bonduca', 'Fair Maid of the Inn' and 'Coxcomb' among many others. With additional notes and critical works by a variety of commentators. Illustrated with 54 engravings throughout, including a frontispiece to each volume. Collated complete. With the binders stamp to the front pastedown of 'Tyrrell's Pty. Sydney.' The bookplate of 'Athol H Lewis' to the front pastedown, with the image of gallows with the caption reads 'Sad end of a man who failed to return a book belonging to Athol H Lewis&apos. Rebacked, in a full calf binding. Externally generally smart. Rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of loss to the leather. The spine labels to volume II and V are lacking, with loss to each of the remaining spine labels heaviest to volume I and IV. The front and rear boards of volume I are detached but present. Front boar of volume II is detached but present. Backstrip to volume II is beginning to lift to the head and tail. Crack to the head of the rear joint of volume III. Large crack to the front joint of volume VI, with risk of the front board becoming detached. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Light offsetting to the front and rear pastedowns. The front and rear hinges of each volume are strained, failing to volumes I and I, resulting in the previous mentioned detached boards. Front hinge of volume IV notable strained. Internally generally firmly bound. Binding to volume I has failed, with the text block split in two to page 114,held together by the backstrip only. Pages are generally clean with instances of spotting, and light offsetting caused by the engraved plates. Good Only . Ill.: Various. Good Only .

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Book number: 622C2

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: Leather Theatre Beaumont Fletcher Theatre Various

Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher et al.

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

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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Book number: 195533

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; 17th Century Printing ; ;

Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John

The Knight of the Burning Pestle.

Robert Holden, 1925. Hard Cover, 125pp, brown cloth covered boards, hand cut foredge. Flyleaf removed and previous owner's name on label to inner board, a few spots of foxing to bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy. Prepared by G B Harrison, one of the Fortune Play Books series... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 5871

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Theatre, Play

BEAUMONT, Francis & FLETCHER,John

The knight of the burning pestle

London, Robert Holden, 1926. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket) New ed.. A little scattered foxing. The Fortune Play Books edition, prepared for reading by G.B. Harrison. Photo:.

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Book number: BOOKS038139I

Beaumont and Fletcher

The Maide’S Tragedy

New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Wood engravings by Freda Bone. One of 1200 numbered copies. Qtr. calf, rubbed. .

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Book number: 02-0884

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Keywords: Bone

BEAUMONT, Francis, and FLETCHER, John

The Maides Tragedy. ; Introduction by Christopher Morley. Wood Engravings by Freda Bone

New York, Cheshire Press, 1932. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green leather spine and marbled paper over boards. viii, 147pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Spine a bit scuffed; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight, handsome copy. Edition limited to 1200 numbered copies (this #967). .

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Book number: 11012

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: British Literature

BEAUMONT, Francis en FLETCHER, John:

Philaster of de liefde ligt te bloeden, vertaling J. Decroos, Rondom Shakespeare II,

Antwerpen/Santpoort, De Sikkel/Mees, 1924, 99p onafgesneden, or linnen, enkele bibl.-stempels maar verder uitstekende staat

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Book number: 8523

Beaumont, F. & Fletcher, J.

Philaster, or love lies a-bleeding

J.M.Dent, n.d. Hard covers.V.g./No Jacket.No inscriptions. In English.1 kg.

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Book number: 30208

Catalogue: Drama

Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John

Philaster or, Love Lies a-Bleeding. (edited by Andrew Gurr) (The Revels Plays)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1969. Ppb., LXXXIV, 142 pp.

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Book number: 4497

Catalogue: English Literature/History of Literature

Keywords: theatre, England, 17th century, plays, text-edition

BEAUMONT. FLETCHER. OLIPHANT, E.H.C.

The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. An Attempt to Determine Their Respective Shares and the Shares of Others.

Yale University Press, 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. Ex-lib, o/wise contents good. Frontis. B/W plates. Includes a chronological survey. 553pp.

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Book number: 52584

Keywords: english literature history historical fiction literary criticism 17th seventeenth england britain british century drama dramatic theatre stage playwright beaumont fletcher

BEAUMONT, FLETCHER, ED. LEIGH HUNT

Selections from the Work of Beaumont and Fletcher

George Bell London 1909 hdbk. Hardcover. Extracts from around 50 dramas ascribed to the pair, and poems, with an introduction. Good, no DJ. 363pp 0. Good.

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Book number: 3798

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: PLAYS, PLAYWRIGHTS, STAGE, THEATRE, SCRIPTS, DRAMA, BEAUMONT, FLETCHER Scripts Theatre

Beaumont and Fletcher; E H Fellowes

Songs & Lyrics from the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

London, Oxford University Press, 1928. Cloth. A very smart copy of this limited edition work, comprising the songs featured in Beaumont and Fletcher's plays put to music. Engraved title page, Numbered 81 or 345 copies produced. Several leaves remain unopened to the top edge. Tipped in publisher's information, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press. This work is a collection of the songs and lyrics from Beaumont and Fletcher's plays put to contemporary music. Beaumont and Fletcher were a dramatist duo who collaborated during the reign of James I. They wrote around fifty-five plays together. Their plays include 'Cupid's Revenge', 'A King and No King', 'Love's Pilgrimage', 'The Noble Gentleman', 'Thierry and Theodoret', and more. Put to contemporary music by E. H. Fellows. Fellows was a Church of England clergyman and musical scholar. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is very smart. Minor chips to the head and tail of spine. Light tidemarks to the wraps. Small closed tear to the head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Otherwise, pages are clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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Book number: 744L24

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: Beaumont and Fletcher Plays Music Plays None