Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) & John Fletcher.
Comedies and Tragedies.

London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647.



First collected edition, folio, engraved portrait of Fletcher at the age of forty-nine by Marshall bound opposite the title in first state, with the words "vates duplex" uncapitalized; the layout and plan of this publication modeled on the Shakespeare Folio; bound in full late 19th century crushed maroon morocco, inner gilt dentelles, spine ornately decorated and lettered in gilt compartments, boards ruled in blind, aeg., washed and pressed, hinges rubbed; portrait and title remargined, marginal restorations to final leaf; ex libris Anson Conger Goodyear, with his bookplate, and perhaps annotations of value 1902-1927 in his hand on back free fly-leaf; purchased from Seven Gables in 1966; 12 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.

Wing B-1581; ESTC R22900; Pforzheimer 53.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.