The History of the World

1614

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1614

Author:	Raleigh, Sir Walter
Title:	The History of the World
Publication Location:	London
Editor:	Printed [by William Stansby] for Walter Bvrre [, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane].
Date:	1614
Language:	English
No of scans:	1620
Type:	Print

Publication LocationLondon
PublisherPrinted [by William Stansby] for Walter Bvrre [, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane].
Publication Date1614

TypePrint
Ilustrationill.
Volume2° ; 34 x 22 cm
Collation1580 p.
BindingCalf, contemporary
Signature[pi]² A-E⁴ a-c⁶ d² B-C⁶ D⁶(±D6) E⁶(±E4) F⁶ G⁶(±G1) H-3I⁶ 3K⁴ 4A-6T⁶ 6V-6Y⁴ 7A-7C⁶

General NotesTitle-page Attribution: None
Printer’s name and bookseller’s address from colophon
Other Copies: 50
AnnotationDistinctive annotation mark (π) used in margins, corresponding to list of textual excerpts, with page numbers, written on back flyleaf in a contemporary hand
Citation Source NameSTC (2nd edn.) 20637

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?