BEAUMONT, Francis and John FLETCHER. Comedies and Tragedies… Never Printed Before. London: for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647. First collected edition, folio (316 x 202mm.) Woodcut initials and head and tail-pieces, text in double-column, 7 lists of ‘Speakers of this Play’ in manuscript verso last leaf of preceding play. (Lacking portrait frontispiece, insect-damage to margins and within some text, title and initial blank with paper-repairs and numerous leaves with marginal paper repairs, some leaves text-affected, Qqq2 with corner loss.) Contemporary boards (rebacked, endpapers replaced, extremities heavily rubbed). Note: involving the work of eight different printers, the publication of this work was the third great folio edition of Elizabethan drama, after Shakespeare in 1623 and Ben Jonson in 1616. It contains twenty-two leaves of poetry dedicated to the two dramatists, including first printings of work by Ben Jonson, Richard Lovelace, Milton, Herrick, Shirley, Waller, and Roger L’ Estrange. Provenance: Car. I. Taboris (ink stamp to initial blank).