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Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies.

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Title-page Attribution: As above
Note ‘£3.3.0’ on right corner of πA1
Title page portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’. Engraving in state 3
Imprint from colophon
Other Copies: 234

1623

Author: Shakespeare, William
Title: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount [at the charges of W. Iaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley].
Date: 1623
Language: English
No of scans: 920
Type: Print
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Document
  • AuthorsShakespeare, William
  • Author Years(1564-1616)
  • TitleMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies.
  • Varying form of TitleFirst Folio
  • Language(s)eng
Publication, distribution
  • Publication LocationLondon
  • PublisherPrinted by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount [at the charges of W. Iaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley].
  • Publication Date1623
Edition
Description material
  • TypePrint
  • Ilustrationill.
  • Volume2° ; 32.8 x 21.3 cm
  • Collation908 p.
  • BindingBrown calf, contemporary ‘Shakespeare’ written on fore-edge
  • SignatureπA6(πA1+1, πA5+1:2); A-Bb6 Cc2; a-g6 xgg8 h-v6 x4; ‘gg3:4’ (±’gg3’) ¶-¶¶6 3¶1 aa-ff6gg2Gg6hh6kk-3b6
Remarques
  • General NotesTitle-page Attribution: As above
    Note ‘£3.3.0’ on right corner of πA1
    Title page portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’. Engraving in state 3
    Imprint from colophon
    Other Copies: 234
  • AnnotationSix pencilled crosses in margins of Merchant of Venice
  • Citation Source NameSTC (2nd ed.) 22273 Rasmussen and West, pp. 851-54 West, p. xxii
Identification
  • ConstellationLittérature élisabéthaine
  • PID766
  • DOI10.13097/BodmerLab/1072056510
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Did you know?

  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
  • that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
  • that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
  • more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?