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Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the True Originall Copies.

Booth, Lionel, active 19th century, publisher.; Promotional material for (expression): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. First Folio.
1862
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Title
Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the True Originall Copies.
Published
London : Re-Printed for Lionel Booth, 1862.
Description
1 sheet : illustration ; 35 x 23 cm
Associated name
Booth, Lionel, active 19th century, publisher.
Promotional material for (expression): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. First Folio.
Note
Specimen title page for Lionel Booth's 1862 reprint of the First Folio.

Sheet features vignette based on Droeshout portrait and ornamental headpieces.

"Part I. of the smallest size, containing the whole of the Comedies, is now ready, in an appropriate binding, after an Elizabethan pattern, price 10s. 6d."
Condition
All copies slightly foxed, small tears at edges
Genre/form
Trial proofs.
Modern laid papers (Paper)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
Sh.Misc. 393
Folger-specific note
8 copies of specimen page.
Folger accession
No case or accession number present

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