May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Fletcher, John (1579-1625)
The Wild-Goose Chase. A Comedie.

London: Printed [by William Wilson] for Humpherey Moseley, 1652.

First separate edition, folio, originally omitted from Beaumont & Fletcher's folio works, title page attributes joint authorship to the two playwrights, although modern scholars have found that Fletcher was the sole author; bound in full crushed green morocco by Riviere, tooled in gilt and housed in a custom two-piece slipcase by Mounteney with brown morocco spine; correction slip for the word "GOOSE" present on a1 verso; ex libris Frederick S. Peck and Harold Greenhill, with bookplates, 12 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.

Wing B-1616; Pforzheimer 52; ESTC R13818.