Mr. William Shakespears comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true original copies.

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Mr. William Shakespears comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true original copies.

Plays

The third impression : and unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio ...

London : Printed for P. C., 1664.

[20], 568, 560-607, 609-658, 657-664, 667-715, 714-877, [1], 20, 48, 50-53, 53-100 p. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 34 cm (fol.)

Printed for Philip Chetwind (ESTC).

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴(-[superscript pi]A1,2 +[superscript pi]A1.2) [superscript pi]b⁶ A-2A⁶ 2B⁸ 2C-4D⁶ 4E⁴ a⁶ b⁴ *-4*⁴, [par.]A-[par.]B⁶ [par.]C-[par.]F⁴ [par.]G⁶. (In all copies known, [superscript pi]A3 is missigned 'A2'.)

Printed by Roger Daniel (A-E, I-Z, 2G-3A, 3P-4E, a-b, *-4*, and [par.]A-[par.]G), John Hayes or Thomas Ratcliffe (F-H, 2A-2F, and 3I-3O), and Alice Warren (3B-3H). Cf. Greg p. 1117n2, 1705.

The additional plays, as listed on the title page, are: Pericles Prince of Tyre, The London prodigall, The history of Thomas Ld. Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The puritan widow, A York-shire tragedy, and The tragedy of Locrine. The additional plays have separate pagings and signatures (20, 48, 50-53, 53-100 p. and sigs. a⁶ b⁴ *-4*⁴, [par.]A-[par.]B⁶ [par.]C-[par.]F⁴ [par.]G⁶).

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R30560
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), S2914
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, p. 1118-19

Great Britain -- England -- London.

S2914 Fo.3 no.01

Folger copy 1 has, of the three title pages proper to this edition, that on the recto of the cancellans title leaf (+[superscript pi]A2).

Has the associated "verses", with the port. above them, on the facing page, the verso of the cancellans "verses" leaf (+[superscript pi]A1). "Verses" leaf is patched at the outer edge, affecting port., which is completed in manuscript facsim.

Port. in state 3.

Leaf [superscript pi]b5 is misbound between [superscript pi]A4 and [superscript pi]b1.

Leaf +[superscript pi]A2 (title leaf) and leaves [superscript pi]A3-[superscript pi]b6 have their upper and lower outer corners patched.

Also present is the cancellandum "verses" leaf (-[superscript pi]A1) with the "verses" on the verso; inlaid, with the extremities very slightly touched up with pen and ink.

Leaves 2P2-2Y3 are patched in the upper margin, affecting the head rule on 2S1-2Y3, recto and verso (and the page number on 2X5 verso). Leaf 3S6 is patched, affecting the tail rule, recto and verso, and the catchword on the recto. Leaves [par.]G4,5 are remargined in the outer margin. Leaf [par.]G6 is inlaid and patched, text completed in manuscript facsim.

Other imperfections affect text slightly on H5, T2, 3*2, and [par.]C2 and very slightly on 2G2, 2I2, 2P6, and 2T4.

Variant states and printings, as recorded by James G. McManaway, "New discoveries in the Third Folio," PBSA, v. 70, (1976), 469-80, and other such variations, are identified in file.

Manuscript additions include 18th cent. inscription 'Fra Barrell his Booke' and in a later hand hand 'Presented by His Granddaughter Anna Dodsworth to her much [es]teemed Friend Sr. Willm Beechey and by him presented to his [daughter?] Anne Dodsworth Jackson Decb 25th. 1836' (+[superscript pi]A1 recto) and (in the first hand) lists of dramatis personae for Errors (I2 verso), All's Well (Y1 verso), and 3 Hen. VI (2T6 verso).

Alexander Bannatyne Stewart copy.