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Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.

Plays. First Folio

London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623.

[18], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 [i.e. 399], [1] p. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 33 cm (fol.)

Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.
Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Stationers' register: Entered to Blount and I. Jaggard 8 November [1623]
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶([superscript pi]A1+1, [superscript pi]A5+1.2), A-2B⁶, 2C², a-g⁶, [superscript chi]2g⁸, h-v⁶, x⁴, "gg3.4"(±"gg3"), [par.]-2[par.]⁶, 3[par.]1, 2a-2f⁶, 2g², "Gg⁶", 2h⁶, 2k-3b⁶.
The title page ([superscript pi]A1+1) is letterpress except for a large portrait of Shakespeare, engraved by Martin Droeshout.
"The life and death of King Iohn" begins new pagination on leaf a1r; "The tragedy of Coriolanus" begins new pagination on leaf 2a1r.
Page 399 misnumbered '993'.
Second issue, with -"gg3"; the text on the recto (the end of Romeo) and the signature mark are crossed out.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, November 2016-January 2017. First Folio! Shakespeares American Tour. Opening: Comedy of Errors.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 22273
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S111228
West, A.J. Shakespeare first folio, 129

Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22273 Fo.1 no.71: "Sophisticating the First Folio", The Collation (13 December 2016)
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STC 22273 Fo.1 no.71

In Folger copy 71 [superscript pi]A1 is extended; [superscript pi]A1+1 (title leaf) is supplied from another copy and inlaid; [superscript pi]A5+1 and [superscript pi]A5+2 are supplied from another copy; [superscript pi] A5+2 is bound after [superscript pi]A6; and [superscript pi]A6 is patched at head, mended, and extended. Port. (on title page) in state 3. Leaves 3b1-5 are wanting; supplied are the leaves bearing the corresponding text in the 2nd Folio, respectively 2nd Folio, 3c5-3d3. The upper margin of each supplied leaf is patched, with counterfeit 1st Folio running titles supplied in manuscript facsim. As necessary to otherwise counterfeit 1st Folio leaves, the original signature marks have been effaced, and page numbers and signature marks appropriate to the 1st Folio have been provided in manuscript facsim. Leaf 3b6 is inlaid. Leaves S2-4, S6, 2k5, and 2p3.4 are supplied from another copy. The outer margin of leaves R1-6 and S5 is patched, with text completed in manuscript facsim. Other imperfections affect text slightly on R2,3. Leaves 3a5,6 are patched, with text touched up and/or completed in manuscript facsim. Imperfections also affect text on D1, P4, Q1, h6, k5, n4, s4, v4, Gg3, 2o1, and slightly affect text on 8 other leaves. Leaves x3,4 are tipped in. See curatorial file for additional information, including variations not recorded here. Manuscript additions include: (1) passages of Dryden on Shakespeare [ca. 1725] (front flyleaf); (2) "Oxon:" and "Tho: Longe P[re]tium 15s" [?November 1623; cf. Blayney, P.W.M. The First Folio of Shakespeare, p. 28] (both inscriptions in the same hand; [superscript pi]A1r); (3) "Mary Wat[?kin] ... [incompletely recoverable because cropped] 1695" ([superscript pi]A2r). Also "Sabin" (Frank T. Sabin) copy. FILM Fo. 115.1a--Negative microfilm of Folger copy, STC 22273 no. 71 (16:1, 66 feet).