Beaumont (Francis) & John Fletcher. Fifty comedies and tragedies...All in one volume, second collected edition, double column, lacking portrait, title, to the reader f. and final text f. (all provided in facsimile), also final blank, B1&2 margins repaired, with loss of a few letters to B1, sig. D repairs within text, with loss supplied in neat 20th century ink hand, other mostly marginal and small repairs, with the occasional loss of the odd letter(s), a few short tears, some browning, mostly light, but heavier to a few ff., some spotting and staining, antique style calf, spine in compartments and with burgundy leather label, spine faded, [Pforzheimer 54; Wing B1582], folio, Printed by J. Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679. sold not subject to return.

⁂ 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, but not included in any of the of the folio editions of Shakespeare's works, or in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's works (1647). This second edition includes eighteen additional plays which did not appear in the first folio edition.