Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies ...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.; Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.; Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller.; Smethwicke, John, -1641, bookseller.; Hawkins, Richard, -1637?, bookseller.; Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller.; Meighen, Richard, active 1656, bookseller.; Sherwen, John, 1749-1826, former owner.
1632
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Title
Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies ...
Uniform title
Plays
Edition
The second impression.
Created/published
London : Printed by Tho. Cotes ..., 1632.
Description
[20], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, 168, 269-419, [1] p. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 34 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller.
Smethwicke, John, -1641, bookseller.
Hawkins, Richard, -1637?, bookseller.
Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller.
Meighen, Richard, active 1656, bookseller.
Sherwen, John, 1749-1826, former owner.
Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller.
Smethwicke, John, -1641, bookseller.
Hawkins, Richard, -1637?, bookseller.
Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller.
Meighen, Richard, active 1656, bookseller.
Sherwen, John, 1749-1826, former owner.
Note
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-3c⁶ 3d⁴.
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ *⁴ A-2B⁶ 2C² a-3c⁶ 3d⁴.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 22274-22274e.5
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, p. 1113-16
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, p. 1113-16
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
STC 22274 Fo.2 no.53
Folger-specific note
For Folger copy 53, the issue is indeterminate, as formulated by William B. Todd, "Issues and states of the Second Folio and Milton's epitaph on Shakespeare," Studies in bibliography, v. 5 (1952-53), p. 81-108. Wants [superscript pi]A2.5 (title leaf and "Effigies" leaf).
Wants port. (on title page).
Also wants [superscript pi]A1.
Supplied are a nonce manuscript title page (bearing the date 1632 but naming the publishers of the 1st Folio, 1623) and a facing page, bearing the text (the Ben Jonson "verses") of the page facing the t.p. of the 2nd Folio ([superscript pi]A1 verso).
Leaves [superscript pi]A3,4,6 are misbound after *4.
Also wants *1.
Wants D2-5; the text wanting is supplied in manuscript, along with commentary, on six leaves bound-in with pages numbered "39 -l46", "46", "46", "46", "46" [sic].
Wants 3d2-4 (including the colophon); the text wanting and the tailpiece on 3d4 recto (but not the colophon) are supplied in manuscript on pages numbered "415"-"419". On 3d1 the upper and outer margins are mutilated and patched; the tail is mutilated (affecting text slightly) and patched.
Imperfections affect text on L5, slightly on L6, and very slightly on N5, O4, h3, 2a2, and 2f1.
The text is annotated throughout with different readings in the 1st Folio, by John Sherwen. "Carefully collated with the 1st. Folio of 1623" (ms. title page). "The Copy from which this writing is taken and all the alterations in Ink with Pen are from the Edition of 1623 ..." (ms. p. "419").
Sherwen also added in manuscript (in the text and on slips and pages mounted on the endpapers and bound-in or tipped-in passim) references to and comments on other editions of Shakespeare and other Shakespeareana.
Includes clippings from newspapers and magazines, mounted, tipped-in, or inserted loose (some removed to file).
Includes: (1) a small oval port. in profile of Shakespeare bearded, embossed in blind, 2.9 cm. x 2.2 cm. (inside front cover); (2) an engraved port. of Shakespeare, after the Chandos port., lettered "William Shakespeare Died April 23d. 1616", plate lines 14.5 (ca.) cm. x 10.2 cm. (front free endpaper); and (3) a mezzotint lettered "Engraved by Wm. Ward A.R.A. from a Painting by Thos. Phillips Esqr. R.A. after a Cast by G. Bullock from the Monumental Bust, at Stratford-upon- Avon. Mr. William Shakespeare, 'His true Effigies.' ... Printed by Inhee" (tipped-in among front fly leaves).
Wants port. (on title page).
Also wants [superscript pi]A1.
Supplied are a nonce manuscript title page (bearing the date 1632 but naming the publishers of the 1st Folio, 1623) and a facing page, bearing the text (the Ben Jonson "verses") of the page facing the t.p. of the 2nd Folio ([superscript pi]A1 verso).
Leaves [superscript pi]A3,4,6 are misbound after *4.
Also wants *1.
Wants D2-5; the text wanting is supplied in manuscript, along with commentary, on six leaves bound-in with pages numbered "39 -l46", "46", "46", "46", "46" [sic].
Wants 3d2-4 (including the colophon); the text wanting and the tailpiece on 3d4 recto (but not the colophon) are supplied in manuscript on pages numbered "415"-"419". On 3d1 the upper and outer margins are mutilated and patched; the tail is mutilated (affecting text slightly) and patched.
Imperfections affect text on L5, slightly on L6, and very slightly on N5, O4, h3, 2a2, and 2f1.
The text is annotated throughout with different readings in the 1st Folio, by John Sherwen. "Carefully collated with the 1st. Folio of 1623" (ms. title page). "The Copy from which this writing is taken and all the alterations in Ink with Pen are from the Edition of 1623 ..." (ms. p. "419").
Sherwen also added in manuscript (in the text and on slips and pages mounted on the endpapers and bound-in or tipped-in passim) references to and comments on other editions of Shakespeare and other Shakespeareana.
Includes clippings from newspapers and magazines, mounted, tipped-in, or inserted loose (some removed to file).
Includes: (1) a small oval port. in profile of Shakespeare bearded, embossed in blind, 2.9 cm. x 2.2 cm. (inside front cover); (2) an engraved port. of Shakespeare, after the Chandos port., lettered "William Shakespeare Died April 23d. 1616", plate lines 14.5 (ca.) cm. x 10.2 cm. (front free endpaper); and (3) a mezzotint lettered "Engraved by Wm. Ward A.R.A. from a Painting by Thos. Phillips Esqr. R.A. after a Cast by G. Bullock from the Monumental Bust, at Stratford-upon- Avon. Mr. William Shakespeare, 'His true Effigies.' ... Printed by Inhee" (tipped-in among front fly leaves).