Francis Beaumont: Dramatist / A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, / And of His Association with John Fletcher

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By permission of the Right Hon. Lord Sackville, G. C. M. G.
PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BEAUMONT From the original painting at Knole Park
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS CIRCLE, ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN, AND OF HIS ASSOCIATION WITH JOHN FLETCHER
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, LITT.D., LL.D.
Professor of the English Language and Literature in the University of California