The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh. And the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three Caskets.
1600
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The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh. And the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three Caskets.
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Title-page Attribution: Written by W. Shakespeare.
Stamp on front flyleaf: ‘Bibliotheca Heberiana’
Notes: The imprint is false
Other Copies: 19
Stamp on front flyleaf: ‘Bibliotheca Heberiana’
Notes: The imprint is false
Other Copies: 19
1600
| Author: | Shakespeare, William |
| Title: | The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the Iew towards the saide Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh. And the obtaining of Portia, by the choyse of three Caskets. |
| Publication Location: | London |
| Editor: | Printed by I. Roberts [i.e. by William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier]. |
| Date: | 1600 |
| Language: | English |
| No of scans: | 109 |
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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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