Mr. William Shakespear's comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, seven plays, never before printed in folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London prodigal, The history of Thomas Lord Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Puritan widow, A Yorkshire tragedy, The tragedy of Locrine
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Title: Mr. William Shakespear's comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added, seven plays, never before printed in folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London prodigal, The history of Thomas Lord Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Puritan widow, A Yorkshire tragedy, The tragedy of Locrine
Classmark: BC Safe/SHA
Creator(s): Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Publisher: printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1685
Language: English
Size and medium: [11], 272 [i.e. 270], [1], 328, 303 p
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/dv9l5nrd
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/311584
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005900439705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
The 'fourth folio'. 13 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches.
F.1b. Droeshout's engraving with Ben Jonson's verse 'This figure...' below it. F.2a. Title-page. F.3a-b. 'To the most noble and incomparable pair ...'. F.4a. 'The works ...'. F.5a. 'To the great variety ...'. F.5b -6a 'To the memory ...' Five poems By L. Digges and others. F.6b. 'An epitaph ...'.
Collation. [Section 1. Comedies] Pp.[11],272 [actually 270], [1]. Pp.107,109,114,190-1,219,246 respectively misnumbered 109,111,411,186-7,221,234. Between pp.254-5 come pp. misnumbered 143 and 254. Ff.1-2 without sigs. A 1-4, A-U in sixes [U 2 bis], X-Z 4 in sixes. [Section 2. Histories] Pp.328. P.93 misnumbered 92. B[b]-Uu in sixes, Xx-Zz in sixes. [Section 3. Tragedies] Pp.303. P.67 misnumbered 76. Aaa-Eee 8 in sixes, Aaa-Ttt in sixes.
Text considerably modernized from the third folio.
Indexed in: Wing S 2915.
Indexed in: Woodward & McManaway 1109, i.e. first (3-publisher) issue.
Additional description
Corner of p.177 (3rd count) repaired. Ms. inscription on title-page almost entirely obliterated. Book-plate of J. Creswell. Red morocco binding in morocco case by Zaehnsdorf
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