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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Plays

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard (autograph)

Ridgely, Charles Sterett (inscription)

Ridgely, Andrew Sterett (inscription)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 272, that is, 270 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 328, 303 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait; 37 cm (folio)

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for H. Herringman, and are to be sold by JIoseph Knight and Francis Saunders, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1685.

Notes:

Another issue of the Fourth Folio with a cancel t.p. with different ornament and imprint.

Signatures: pi , [susperscript pi]A , A-Y , Z , 2B-2Z , *3A-*3D , *3E , 3A-4B , 4C [missigning D3 as C3, U3 as U2, 2B and 2C as B and C,2D3 as D3, 2M3 as M3, 2O1 as 2P1, *3A3 as *2A3, *3E1,2 as 3E1,2; not signing 2E3].

Pagination (from Greg): 1-272 [misnumbering (33 as 23), (96 as 98), omitting 97-98, misnumbering 107 as 109, 109 as 111, (114 as 411), omitting 161-162, misnumbering (164 as 160), (169 as 171), 190-191 as 186-187, 219 as 221, 246 as 234, repeating 253-254 as 243,254]; 1-328, [misnumbering (88 as 87), (93 as 92), (225 as 224), (228 as 232)]; 1-303, [misnumbering 67 as 76].

Local Notes:

Copy 1 variants unlike Greg: (1st count) p. 96 not misnumbered [98], p. 114 not [411]; (2nd count, 225 not misnumbered [224] and 228 not [232]). Leaf D3 not missigned C3, 2M3 not missigned M3.

Imperfect: Leaf pi1 (portrait) wanting; title leaf mutilated and much of lace ornament and all of imprint missing; p. 305-308 wanting.

Cited in:

Wing S2917

Greg III, p. 1121

OCLC:

187471490