Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[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.
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| Edition: | The second impression. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | 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, pages 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([20], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, 168, 269-419, [1] pages : portrait. |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |