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Great Britain
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Reference IDs
Folger call number: PR2823 1729b copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421383
Accession Number: No case or acc. number present
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Bibliographic format
twelvemo
General notes
A piratical reprint of the orginal 1729 edition, probably printed about 1733 (Folger card catalog) There exist two editions of the 1729 Macbeth with the same imprint and virtually the same settings of type. This edition ('B') is a ca. 1733 pirated line-by-line reprint, characterized by the following readings: leaf A3r, line 4 "Battle's"; leaf A3v, line 16 "smilling"; and leaf E2r, line 1 "Donalbane." Edition 'A' is the original 1729 edition, cataloged separately, identified on those leaves by different readings: "Battel's"; "smiling"; and "Donalbaine." Each edition also has a final leaf G6 of advertisements with different information on the versos as follows: the second entry for books sold by J. Darby, [etc.] in edition 'B' is Mrs. Behn's Novels; while in edition 'A', the second entry is Mauger's French Grammar Signatures: A-G⁶ Not in ESTC or Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740; see ESTC T62204 and Ford 167 With a final leaf of advertisements for Tonson on G6r and for the remaining booksellers in the imprint on G6v
Item information about Folger PR2823 1729b copy 2 Sh.Col
Lacking final leaf of advertisements. Disbound. Gift of Henry N. Paul
Also known as
Extended title: Macbeth : a tragedy : as it is now acted by His Majesty's Servants / written by William Shakespear
Related names
bookseller: Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736
bookseller: Darby, John, -1733
bookseller: Bettesworth, Arthur, -1739
bookseller: Clay, Francis, -1738
associated name: Wellington, Richard
associated name: Wellington, James, active 18th century
associated name: Wellington, Bethel
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
former owner: Williamson, Christr., active 18th century