Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true originall copies
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Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true originall copies
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- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer; Cotes, Richard, -1653, printer; Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller; Smethwicke, John, -1641, bookseller; Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller; Hawkins, Richard, -1637? bookseller; Meighan, Richard, bookseller; Droeshout, Martin, 1601- engraver; Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630, editor; Condell, Henry, -1627, editor; Digges, Leonard, 1588-1635; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637; Milton, John, 1608-1674; Holland, Hugh, -1633; Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785, autographer; Freeman, John, autographer; Utterson, Edward Vernon, 1775 or 1776-1856, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
- Publication date
- 1632
- Publisher
- 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
- Collection
- bplsctpbs; bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
This, the second edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare, is commonly known as the Second Folio. The so-called First Folio was printed in London and issued in 1623 by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount. It contained 36 plays, 18 of which had never before appeared in print, including Macbeth, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar. Before the First Folio, a number of Shakespeare's plays had been published in various smaller formats that frequently contained significant textual divergences between editions.
The front matter contains commendatory verses and epistles dedicatory from contemporaries and admirers of Shakespeare, including Ben Jonson, James Mabbe, Leonard Digges, Hugh Holland, and John Milton. "An epitaph on the admirable dramaticke," included for the first time in the second folio, is Milton's first published poem
This edition was originally issued under a number of variant imprints in 1632, each reflecting the names of different booksellers who had shares in the venture. Remainder stock was later reissued, probably ca. 1641 and again at a later date. See: Todd, W.B., "Issues and states of the Second Folio", in Studies in bibliography, v.5 (1952-53), p. [81]-108. Greg also enumerates these variants
Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ *⁴ A-2B⁶ 2C² a-y⁶ 2a-3c⁶ 3d⁴.
Numerous missigned leaves and errors in pagination are present. See Greg for further detail
Title page vignette (Droeshout portrait); head- and tailpieces; initials
Bartlett, H.C. Shakespeare early editions
Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue
ESTC
Greg
Pforzheimer
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.174.3 bound in early calfskin paneled and tooled in blind with the gilt, armorial super-ex-libris of E.V. Utterson on both covers. Spine rebacked in goatskin, with earlier compartment panels and labels. Modern pencil inscription regarding condition on front flyleaf recto. Ca. 19th-century manuscript list of typographical peculiarities tipped onto front flyleaf verso.Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. The Merry Wives of Windsor annotated in an early hand, with marginal corrections. Pencil markings throughout several other plays. Autograph of John Freeman duplicated under colophon. Leaf 3d4 lined and reattached. [Superscript pi]A1 remargined. Title leaf ([superscript pi]A2) from what W.B. Todd describes as the first issue, variant 1b, printed in 1632. Based on description in the Barton Collection catalog, this leaf was inserted to replace the missing, original title page. [Superscript pi]A5, containing both the Milton epitaph and an anonymous effigy, wanting and replaced in facsimile that displays what both Todd and R.M. Smith refer to as the “effigies B” variant. Extra, but authentic “effigies” leaf (Todd: "effigies C"), here autographed by Thomas Davies, also inserted. Because the issues and variants of the Second Folio are differentiated via their front matter -- multiple leaves of which are, in this copy, reinserted, possibly from a different copy or group of copies -- the entirety of G.174.3 cannot be conclusively ascribed to any single issue.
The front matter contains commendatory verses and epistles dedicatory from contemporaries and admirers of Shakespeare, including Ben Jonson, James Mabbe, Leonard Digges, Hugh Holland, and John Milton. "An epitaph on the admirable dramaticke," included for the first time in the second folio, is Milton's first published poem
This edition was originally issued under a number of variant imprints in 1632, each reflecting the names of different booksellers who had shares in the venture. Remainder stock was later reissued, probably ca. 1641 and again at a later date. See: Todd, W.B., "Issues and states of the Second Folio", in Studies in bibliography, v.5 (1952-53), p. [81]-108. Greg also enumerates these variants
Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ *⁴ A-2B⁶ 2C² a-y⁶ 2a-3c⁶ 3d⁴.
Numerous missigned leaves and errors in pagination are present. See Greg for further detail
Title page vignette (Droeshout portrait); head- and tailpieces; initials
Bartlett, H.C. Shakespeare early editions
Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue
ESTC
Greg
Pforzheimer
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy G.174.3 bound in early calfskin paneled and tooled in blind with the gilt, armorial super-ex-libris of E.V. Utterson on both covers. Spine rebacked in goatskin, with earlier compartment panels and labels. Modern pencil inscription regarding condition on front flyleaf recto. Ca. 19th-century manuscript list of typographical peculiarities tipped onto front flyleaf verso.Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. The Merry Wives of Windsor annotated in an early hand, with marginal corrections. Pencil markings throughout several other plays. Autograph of John Freeman duplicated under colophon. Leaf 3d4 lined and reattached. [Superscript pi]A1 remargined. Title leaf ([superscript pi]A2) from what W.B. Todd describes as the first issue, variant 1b, printed in 1632. Based on description in the Barton Collection catalog, this leaf was inserted to replace the missing, original title page. [Superscript pi]A5, containing both the Milton epitaph and an anonymous effigy, wanting and replaced in facsimile that displays what both Todd and R.M. Smith refer to as the “effigies B” variant. Extra, but authentic “effigies” leaf (Todd: "effigies C"), here autographed by Thomas Davies, also inserted. Because the issues and variants of the Second Folio are differentiated via their front matter -- multiple leaves of which are, in this copy, reinserted, possibly from a different copy or group of copies -- the entirety of G.174.3 cannot be conclusively ascribed to any single issue.
Notes
Check-in: No page 48/49 near leaf 373, 169-268 near 757. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
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- 2015-05-13 12:37:54.342266
- Associated-names
- Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer; Cotes, Richard, -1653, printer; Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller; Smethwicke, John, -1641, bookseller; Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller; Hawkins, Richard, -1637? bookseller; Meighan, Richard, bookseller; Droeshout, Martin, 1601- engraver; Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630, editor; Condell, Henry, -1627, editor; Digges, Leonard, 1588-1635; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637; Milton, John, 1608-1674; Holland, Hugh, -1633; Davies, Thomas, 1713-1785, autographer; Freeman, John, autographer; Utterson, Edward Vernon, 1775 or 1776-1856, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
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- Pages
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- Ppi
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- References
- Bartlett, H.C. Shakespeare early editions, 120; Boston Public Library. Barton collection catalogue, p. 2; ESTC S95179; Greg, III, p. 1116; Pforzheimer, 906
- Republisher_date
- 20150519164736
- Republisher_operator
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- Worldcat (source edition)
- 228716227
- Year
- 1632
- Full catalog record
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