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Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition.

1685

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Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition.

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Title-page Attribution: As above
Engraved portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’
One of two title page settings associated with the fourth edition, and one of three versions of the imprint. This title page is in the same setting as Wing S2916
Other Copies: 56

1685

Author: Shakespeare, William
Title: Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and in Russel-Street Covent-Garden.
Date: 1685
Language: English
No of scans: 922
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. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition.
  • Varying form of TitleFourth Folio
  • Language(s)eng
Publication, distribution
  • Publication LocationLondon
  • PublisherPrinted for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and in Russel-Street Covent-Garden.
  • Publication Date1685
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Description material
  • TypePrint
  • Volume2° ; 35 x 22.8 cm
  • Collation924 p.
  • BindingMottled calf, contemporary
  • SignatureπA4 A-Y6 Z4 2A-*3D6 *3E8 3A-3Z6 4A- 4B6 4C2
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  • General NotesTitle-page Attribution: As above
    Engraved portrait signed ‘Martin Droeshout: sculpsit London’
    One of two title page settings associated with the fourth edition, and one of three versions of the imprint. This title page is in the same setting as Wing S2916
    Other Copies: 56
  • AnnotationNone
  • Citation Source NameWing (2nd edn.) S2915
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  • ConstellationLittérature élisabéthaine
  • PID763
  • DOI10.13097/BodmerLab/1072056507
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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?
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