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The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida. As it was acted by the Kings Maiesties seruants at the Globe.

Title-page Attribution: Written by William Shakespeare
The first issue of the first edition.
3 (British Library, Huntington, Elizabethan Club)
[And 10 copies of another issue, STC 22332]
Missing last blank leaf, M2
This copy is entirely untrimmed – the only such quarto of any play printed during Shakespeare’s lifetime

1609

Author: Shakespeare, William
Title: The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida. As it was acted by the Kings Maiesties seruants at the Globe.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Imprinted by G. Eld for R. Bonian and H. Walley, and are to be sold at the spred Eagle in Paules Church-yeard, ouer against the great North doore.
Date: 1609
Language: English
No of scans: 107
Type: Print
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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?