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BEAUMONT, FRANCIS; and JOHN FLETCHER. Comedies and Tragedies. London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, and for Humphrey Moseley, 1647. Engraved portrait by William Marshall. Folio, seventeenth-century red morocco, covers with gilt arms of dramatist Thomas Killigrew, spine with his gilt monogram in four compartments, spine ends and corners repaired, covers stained; title-page soiled with large tear repaired (crossing 5 lines of text), Ggg2 with tear crossing text and chip (causing loss on approximately 6 words), tear on Ddd and Eee (crossing 5 and 7 lines, respectively), tear on Eee4 repaired (crossing 19 lines), corner chipped on Ttt3 (affecting a few letters and pagination), lower margin patched on Dddd (patch affecting a few words), lower corners chipped and patched on Gggg and Hhhh4 (affecting a few wordss), first 8 leaves with some staining, scattered soiling or light staining, a few margins chipped (sometimes affecting a few letters or margin borders). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with first state portrait with "vates duplex" in line 4 of the lower caption. Wing B1581; Grolier/English 28; Pforzheimer 53.