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Description

1. 9 p. l., 303 p.; 232 [i.e. 264] p.; 15 l., 993 [i.e. 292] p. port.; 34 cm. (fol.)

Call number

1. *KC+ 1623 (Shakespeare, W. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies)

Note

1. Colophon: Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
2. Author's portrait on t.p., engraved by Martin Droeshout, in the third state.
3. Sig. ss₃a (p. 309), col. 2, line 21: ... He dis.

Indexed in (note)

1. STC
2. Greg: Bibl. of Eng, printed drama
3. Pforzheimer
4. Church: English literature
5. Pollard: Folios and quartos
6. Lee: Census

Author

1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title

1. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies.

Imprint

1. London, printed by Isaac Iaggard, and [for] Ed. Blount, 1623.

Indexed in:

1. STC 22273 Copy 1
2. Greg: Bibl. of Eng, printed drama, III, 1109-12 Copy 1
3. Pforzheimer 905 Copy 1
4. Church: English literature, 610 Copy 1
5. Pollard: Folios and quartos, 108-110 Copy 1
6. Lee: Census, xxviii Copy 1

Indexed in:

1. Lee: Census, xxix Copy 3
2. Lee: Census, xliii Copy 4
3. Lee: Census, cxvi Copy 5

Local note

1. Copy 1: For full collation by signatures and pages, including listing of errors, cf. also Greg W.W. The Shakespeare first folio. Oxford, 1955. p. 436-438; Hinman, C. The printing ... of the first folio. Oxford, 1963. v. 1, p. 30-35; and staement laid in each copy.
2. Copy 1: Imperfect: first prelim. leaf slightly mutilated (a few letters supplied in ms.) and inlaid.
3. Copy 1: With autograph of R. Chapell.
4. Copy 1: Binding, by Bedford, of red straight-grained morocco, gilt.
5. Copy 1: Lenox Collection.
6. Copy 2: Imperfect: first prelim. leaf slightly mutilated (a few letters supplied in ms.); t.p. mutilated (about half of the port. and most, if not all, of the imprint restored)
7. Copy 2: With autograph, above colophon, of John Thomas Waller, 1772(?)
8. Copy 2: The Mary S. Harkness copy.
9. Copy 2: Binding, by Riviere & son, of purple morocco, gilt, in the style of Mearne.
10. Copy 3: Variant copies of sig. R₁ and R₆ (before proof correction.--cf. Hinman, I, 261-262) are bound in after the correct leaves.
11. Copy 3: Prelim. leaf 1 inlaid; followed by a complete leaf from another copy. T.p. inlaid; preceded by an inlaid t.p. from another copy on which the date reads 1622 because the tail of the 3 has been cut away. Also bound in is a facsimile of the t.p. portrait, signed: Fs by I[ohn] H[arris]
12. Copy 3: The John Lichfield--James Baker copy.
13. Copy 3: Binding, by Charles Lewis, of brown calf, gilt; rebacked.
14. Copy 4: Imperfect: prelim. leaf 1 wanting, verses from a copy of the 1632 folio; t.p. mutilated, first line apparently supplied from another copy.
15. Copy 4: The Astor library copy.
16. Copy 4: Binding of tan calf, gilt, with supra-libros (Grenville arms with ducal coronet and garter) presumably of Richard Grenville, 1st duke of Buckingham, 1776-1839; rebacked.
17. Copy 5: Sig. q₄b and pp₅a are in the uncorerected state.--cf. Hinman, I, 275 and 302. Sig. ss₃a; col. 2, line 21: ... H e dis. /
18. Copy 5: Imperfect: prelim. leaves and last three leaves wanting, supplied in facsimile (tailpiece signed: FS by JHarris)
19. Copy 5: The Tilden copy.
20. Copy 5: Binding, by R. De Coverly, of red morocco, gilt.

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Research call number

1. *KC+ 1623 (Shakespeare, W. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies)