[Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare]

Hind, A.M. Engraving in England: II, p. 354-359
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Calendar of the Shakespearean rarities, drawings & engravings formerly preserved at Hollingbury Copse (1891): 219
Folger bibliographic ID: 255575
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Folger holdings ID: 336968

Edition

[State 3 of 4]

General notes

Title supplied by cataloger State from Hind Engraved portrait on the otherwise letterpress title page to Shakespeare's Second Folio Allot title number 1, before "coppies" changed to "copies" (see Smith, Robert Metcalf. The Variant Issues of Shakespeare's Second Folio ... 1928 p. 13-14)

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014. Shakespeare's the Thing

Extended title: [Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare] Martin Droeshout sculpsit London
Alternate titles: First folio portrait of Shakespeare, Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies, published according to the true originall coppies, the second impression, Title page portrait of Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Authors

printmaker: Droeshout, Martin, 1601-
depiction: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
former owner: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930