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Mr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio. viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.

1663

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Mr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio. viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.

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Title-page Attribution: As above.
Imprint from ESTC
Portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’
With title cancel leaves of the second issue, in which the portrait has been removed from the title and placed on the opposite leaf above Jonson’s verses ‘To the Reader’; and with the 1663 title page of the first issue in the first state, lacking the Droeshout engraving
Other Copies: 46

1663

Author: Shakespeare, William
Title: Mr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio. viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Printed [by Roger Daniel, Alice Warren, and another] for P[hilip].C[hetwind].
Date: 1663
Language: English
No of scans: 1055
Type: Print
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  • AuthorsShakespeare, William
  • Author Years(1564-1616)
  • TitleMr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio. viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine.
  • Varying form of TitleThird Folio
  • Language(s)eng
Publication, distribution
  • Publication LocationLondon
  • PublisherPrinted [by Roger Daniel, Alice Warren, and another] for P[hilip].C[hetwind].
  • Publication Date1663/4
Edition
Description material
  • TypePrint
  • Volume2° ; 34.2 x 22.2 cm
  • Collation1028 p.
  • BindingCalf, contemporary
  • Signature[π]2 πA4 b6 A-4D6 4E4 a6 b4 * -4*4 ¶A-B6 ¶C-F4 ¶G6
Remarques
  • General NotesTitle-page Attribution: As above.
    Imprint from ESTC
    Portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’
    With title cancel leaves of the second issue, in which the portrait has been removed from the title and placed on the opposite leaf above Jonson’s verses ‘To the Reader’; and with the 1663 title page of the first issue in the first state, lacking the Droeshout engraving
    Other Copies: 46
  • AnnotationNone
  • Citation Source NameWing (2nd ed.), S2914
Identification
  • ConstellationLittérature élisabéthaine
  • PID764
  • DOI10.13097/BodmerLab/1072056508
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  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
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