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The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York’s Theatre.

Title-page Attribution: By William Shakespeare.
Bookplate of Wellman’s husband, Edgar F. Leo
This copy has the four-line imprint
Other Copies: 17

1676

Auteur: Shakespeare, William
Titre: The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York’s Theatre.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Printed by Andr. Clark, for J. Martyn, and H. Herringman, at the Bell in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and at the Blue Anchor in the lower Walk of the New Exchange.
Date: 1676
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 112
Type: Print
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  • 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?