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As you like it : a comedy / by Mr. William Shakespear.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735, bookseller.; Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758, printmaker.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
1734
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Title
As you like it : a comedy / by Mr. William Shakespear.
Uniform title
As you like it
Created/published
London : Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXIV [1734]
Description
72 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. (engraving) ; 17 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735, bookseller.
Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758, printmaker.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Also issued as part of Tonson's edition of the Works of Shakespeare, v. 2, 1735.

Frontispiece plate lettered: P. Fourdrinier scul., v. 2 p. 305.

Signatures: A-C¹².

Not in Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue (ESTC), T22527
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740, 27
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
PR2803 1734 copy 1 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Bound in buckram. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.
Folger accession
cs1419
Call number
PR2803 1734 copy 2 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: lacking frontispiece. Bound in buckram. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.
Folger accession
cs231
Call number
PR2803 1734 copy 3 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
In plain paper wrappers. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.
Folger accession
cs6
Call number
PR2752 1734-35b copy 9 v. 2 item 1 Sh.Col.
Folger-specific note
Copy 9 consists of 8 vols. of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1734-35 by Tonson, bound in a different order than the collected works, and lacking vol. title pages; this play is the first of five in v. 2. Mottled calf binding with marbled endpapers. Gift of Henry N. Paul.
Folger accession
No case or acc. number present