The works of Beaumont & Fletcher ; the text formed from a new collation of the early editions. With notes and a biographical memoir by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. In eleven volumes. ...
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1843 - 1846
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3221678
Summary
Bibliographic description
11 v. : 2 fronts. (ports.) ; 8vo. Running number: 7396. Water staining and cockled leaves at front and rear in most vols. Both frontispiece portraits bound in vol. 1. Provenance: nineteenth-century circular armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Will: Schom: Rob: Ker Marquis of Lothian' [i.e. William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian (1832-1870)]. Bookseller's marks in pencil on vol. 1 front and rear endpapers. Binding: nineteenth-century full tan calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; double gilt fillet and blind dotted roll pattern border; gilt roll pattern along board edges; blind roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spines; gilt title on brown goatskin label and gilt contents on dark brown goatskin label on spines. Dahlia pattern marbled textblock edges. Dahlia pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), author John Fletcher (1579-1625), author Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), editor