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The Shakespeare Second Folio

Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true originall copies Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Description

Edition: The second impression.
With an engraved title page portrait of the author signed: Martin Droeshout, sculpsit, London.
Colophon reads: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632.
Multiple errors in pagination.
Multiple new paginations.

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Title
Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true originall copies
Alternate Title
Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies ; Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, & tragedies
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Contributor
Condell, Henry, -1627; Meighan, Richard; Aspley, John; Cotes, Thomas, -1641; Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630; Droeshout, John, -1652; Burns, John, 1858-1943; Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?; Smethwicke, John, -1641; Hawkins, Richard, -1637?
Publisher
London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard
Date Issued
1632
Description
Edition: The second impression.
With an engraved title page portrait of the author signed: Martin Droeshout, sculpsit, London.
Colophon reads: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632.
Multiple errors in pagination.
Multiple new paginations.
Extent
20 unnumbered pages, 303 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 46 pages, 49-100 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 69-232 pages, 168 pages, 269-419 pages, 1 unnumbered page : 1 portrait (engraving) ; 34 cm
Subject
Plays
Person Or Corporation
Droeshout, John, -1652; Condell, Henry, -1627; Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630; Cotes, Thomas, -1641; Meighan, Richard; Hawkins, Richard, -1637?; Burns, John, 1858-1943; Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Aspley, John; Smethwicke, John, -1641
Genre
Books
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Notes
“To the Reader” leaf is supplied in facsimile.
This variant appears to be a late "variant 1b" in William B. Todd's "Issues and states of the Second Folio and Milton's epitaph on Shakespeare," Studies in bibliography, v. 5 (1952-53), pages 81-108. The letter f in "and are to be fold", usually found on the title page of this variant, appears to have been corrected in the pressroom to read as an s, thus "and are to be sold".
Text on some of the pages is not fully displayed due to the limitations of the binding.
Due to limitations of the OCR software the transcript generated is imperfect.
Identifier
PR_2751_A2_1632; PR2751 .A2 1632
Collection
The Shakespeare Second Folio
Source
University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. PR2751 .A2 1632
Date Available
2025-05-07; 2025-05-07
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca
Catalogue Record
https://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=809525
DOI
10.14288/1.0449871
Aggregated Source Repository
DSPACE7

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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca