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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.

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

Author: Shakespeare, William
Title: Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression.
Publication Location: London
Editor: 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
Language: English
No of scans: 924
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?