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Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume VIII only. Book has wear to fore edge corners with a bit of exposed board. Finish to leather is mostly chipped away on spine. Part of paper title block on spine is missing. Small splits to leather at spine corners. Missing just a small amount of material at head and tail of spine. Marbled papers over leather bound volume to create look of 1/2 bound leather. Spatter dyed edges. Some of pages are lightly foxed. Pages are rippled through printed areas. No marks. Hinges/binding are sound. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. 484 pages.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Beaumont, Francis & John Fletcher. Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. 14 Vols. James Ballantyne, 1812.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vos, law buckram with leather labels. Ex libris Henry George Impey Siddons ( a descendant of actress Sarah Siddons), and Arthur Lanyon Blair. These fine Elizabethan playwrights were overshadowed by Will Shakespeare - but who wasn't? Still these felllow were outstanding in their field.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Beaumont, Francis & John Fletcher. Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. 14 Vols. James Ballantyne, 1812.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vos, law buckram with leather labels.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher in Fourteen Volumes: with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Henry Weber, Esq. Published by James Ballantyne and Company, Edinburgh, 1812. First edition thus. 14 volumes Complete. A scarce set of books on the works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, English dramatists of the early 17th Century. Covers are a later binding, but text is the 1812 original. Navy blue cloth hardback set with red and gilt labels to spine. Covers are good - all soundly bound, but with sun fading to spines and occasional partial sun fading to covers, and occasional staining. Mild shelf rubbing. Text is very good throughout - printed with gilt top edge and other edges uncut as issued. Some foxing to endpapers and owner's presentation inscription to her husband who gave this set as a wedding present. First volume has frontispiece portraits of Beaumont and Fletcher with shared tissue guard, with some corner staining on around 4 leaves of the book. Otherwise text nice and clean throughout with gilt top edge retaining its shine. Dimensions: Each volume typically 228mm high x 152mm wide x 40mm deep. Weight - a substantial set - weighing approximately 10.5kg. Extra postage may be payable. Many more photos on request.
Seller: Lanna Antique, Perth, United Kingdom
Price: US$3591.73 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 14 volumes, 8 1/2 inches tall. A superb Georgian 'Country House' half morocco bound set with gilt raised bands, blind pallets and very handsome gilt centre tooling. Portraits. With the armorial book plate of Baldwin Bastard of Buckland Court. Some foxing especially to the preliminaries. This fine edition includes, for the first time from manuscript, Fletcher's tragicomedy 'The Faithful Friends'. Not printed in its own century, it is one of the most disputed works in English Renaissance drama. English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher collaborated in their writing in the early 17th century.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom