BEAUMONT & FLETCHER in TWO VOLUMES; the MERMAID SERIES. 2 Vols. Edited with Introduction & Notes by J. St. Loe Strachey by Beaumont, Francis & John Fletcher - 1949

Ernest Benn, 1949. 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (page edges spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (spotted and chipped - in protective covers, price clipped). Pp. xl + 471 [&] viii + 519 (endpapers rather spotted; no inscriptions).

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Edward Moxon, 1840. Lightly rubbed and bumped, a few small scuffs to leather, spines and top edges lightly sunned, rear board of vol I mottled or damp-spotted, AEG, front gutters cracked, titles and frontis foxed, period owner inscriptions to recto of frontis, content clean, bright and tight.. Half - Leather. Very Good Minus. 8vo.

Glasgow: Printed for Robert Urie, 1768. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xii, [xi], 13-198; [iv], 220. Near-contemporary calf, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules, red morocco labels, 3rd and 6th compartments numbered and lettered direct in gilt (the latter later), edges sprinkled red. First and last leaves of vol. 1 toned. Somewhat rubbed, particularly to spines, joints just starting, a little wear to extremities. The only Urie printing of six plays by the early 17th century dramatists: Philaster, Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Maid’s Tragedy, The Faithful Shepherdess, The Elder Brother and A King And No King. ESTC records 10 locations, Birmingham, BL, Cambridge, Glasgow, NLS and Leeds in the UK, Columbia, Newberry, Pennsylvania and Folger in the USA. ESTC T32943.