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Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression.

1632

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Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression.

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Title-page Attribution: As above
Signature ‘Willongaire 1697’
The first of nine imprint variants of this edition
Imprint from colophon
Title page portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’
Other Copies: 36

1632

Auteur: Shakespeare, William
Titre: Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression.
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot [, John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, and Richard Meighen], and are to be fold [sic] at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard.
Date: 1632
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 924
Type: Print
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Document
  • Auteur(s)Shakespeare, William
  • Auteur Années(1564-1616)
  • TitreMr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression.
  • Forme alternative du titreSecond Folio
  • Langue(s)eng
Publication, distribution
  • Lieu de publicationLondon
  • EditeurPrinted by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot [, John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, and Richard Meighen], and are to be fold [sic] at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard.
  • Date de publication1632
Edition
Description matérielle
  • TypePrint
  • Illustrationill.
  • Volume2° ; 34 x 22.7 cm
  • Collation908 p.
  • ReliureCalf, contemporary Wastepaper with Latin manuscript text (s. xvi?) used to reinforce binding
  • SignatureπA6 *4 A-2B6 2C2 a-y6 2a-3c6 3d4
Remarques
  • Remarques généralesTitle-page Attribution: As above
    Signature ‘Willongaire 1697’
    The first of nine imprint variants of this edition
    Imprint from colophon
    Title page portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’
    Other Copies: 36
  • AnnotationNone
  • Citation: nom de la sourceSTC (2nd edn.) 22274
Identification
  • ConstellationLittérature élisabéthaine
  • PID765
  • DOI10.13097/BodmerLab/1072056509
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Le saviez-vous?

  • 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?