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Names: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (Author); Jaggard, Isaac, -1627 (Printer)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1623; Place: London; Publisher: printed by Isaac Iaggard, and [for] Ed. Blount
Library locations: Rare Book Division; Shelf locator: *KC+ 1623 (Shakespeare, W. Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies)
Genres: Books
Notes: Content: Colophon: Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623; Content: Author's portrait on t.p., engraved by Martin Droeshout, in the third state; Content: Sig. ss₃a (p. 309), col. 2, line 21: ... He dis. /; Content: 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; Imperfect: first prelim. leaf slightly mutilated (a few letters supplied in ms.) and inlaid; With autograph of R. Chapell; Binding, by Bedford, of red straight-grained morocco, gilt; Lenox Collection; Indexed in: STC 22273; Greg: Bibl. of Eng, printed drama, III, 1109-12; Pforzheimer 905; Church: English literature, 610; Pollard: Folios and quartos, 108-110; Lee: Census, xxviii; Content: 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); With autograph, above colophon, of John Thomas Waller, 1772(?); The Mary S. Harkness copy; Binding, by Riviere & son, of purple morocco, gilt, in the style of Mearne; Content: Copy 3. Variant copies of sig. R₁ and R₆ (before proof correction.--cf. Hinman, I, 261-262) are bound in after the correct leaves; 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]; The John Lichfield--James Baker copy; Binding, by Charles Lewis, of brown calf, gilt; rebacked; Indexed in: Lee: Census, xxix; Content: 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; The Astor library copy; 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; Indexed in: Lee: Census, xliii; Content: 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. /; Imperfect: prelim. leaves and last three leaves wanting, supplied in facsimile (tailpiece signed: FS by JHarris); The Tilden copy; Binding, by R. De Coverly, of red morocco, gilt; Indexed in: Lee: Census, cxvi
Physical Description: Extent: 9 p. l., 303 p.; 232 [i.e. 264] p.; 15 l., 993 [i.e. 292] p. port. 34 cm. (fol.)
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: 43481208; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14470254; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 90d28480-c607-012f-e840-58d385a7bc34