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Record Nr.

UNISA996389666303316

Autore

Shakespeare William <1564-1616.>

Titolo

Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies [[electronic resource] /] / Published according to the true originall coppies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard., 1632

Edizione

[The second impression.]

Descrizione fisica

[20], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, 168, 269-419, [1] p. : port

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Colophon reads: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632.

Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.

Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout; verses of Ben Jonson "To the Reader" on leaf opposite.

"The life and death of King Iohn" and "The prologue" (to Troilus and Cressida) begin new pagination on a1r and 2a1r respectively.

A reissue of the second edition, in fact a remainder from Allot's stock with sheet [superscript pi]A2.5 reset by Cotes some time after 1640. The eighth of nine imprint variants of this edition. The imprint is partly printed over the engraving. See "Studies in bibliography" V, p. 81-108.  Cf. ESTC.

Irregular pagination.

Headpieces; initials; text of plays within line borders.

Signatures: [superscript pi] A⁶ (±[superscript pi] A2.5) *4 A-2B⁶ ²C² a-y⁶ 2a-3c⁶ 3d⁴.

Imperfect: stained.

Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055