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Folger bibliographic ID: 228625
ESTC number: T138294
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740: p. 10-11
Folger call number: PR2752 1709a copy 11 v.2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 260595
Accession Number: 228799
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Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
The first edition published after the four folios; the text is based on the fourth folio Contains the plays only This is the ordinary paper issue with gutter margin 10 mm; height of text block 19.5 cm. There is also a large paper issue in 6 v. with gutter margins of 16 mm and text block heights of 22.5 cm There are two issues of the 1709 works printed on ordinary paper in 6 volumes. This is the first issue, where v. 1, leaf A1, the armorial headpiece is present and signature A is under the 'G' of "Goodness"; v. 6, signature A4 is under "here." See Ford p. 10-11 for a full description of differences between the two issues Vol. 1. Signatures: pi² A⁴ a-b⁸ c⁴ B-2G⁸. Pagination: [12], XL, 463, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates. -- v. 2. Signatures: [A]1 B-2K⁸. Pagination: [5], 468-975, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates. -- v. 3. Signatures: [A]1 B-2N⁸. Pagination: [5], 980-1535, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates. -- v. 4. Signatures: [A]1 B-2L⁸ M⁴. Pagination: [5], 1540-2072 p., [7] leaves of plates. -- v. 5. Signatures: [A]1 B-2O⁸. Pagination: [5], 2076-2647, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates. -- v. 6. Signatures: A⁸ (-A1) B-2N⁸. Pagination: [5], 2656-3324 p., [10] leaves of plates With a general title page in volume 1; each volume with a volume title page; each play with an individual play title page with the imprint: Printed in the year 1709 Engraved portrait frontispiece plate lettered: M. Vdr. Gucht sculp.; frontispiece included in each volume. Engravings for plays lettered for pagination, attributed to artist Boitard and engraver Kirkall (see H.A. Hammelmann, Shakespeare's first illustrators, Apollo, supplement "notes on British art" p. 1-4, August 1968) Paged continuously; numerous errors in paging Also available as a digital reproduction
Contents
v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale -- v. 3. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV. Part 1 ; King Henry IV. Part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI. Part 1 ; King Henry VI. Part 2 -- v. 4. King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 5. Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens ; Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear ; Othello -- v. 6. Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles ; London prodigal ; Thomas, Lord Cromwell ; Sir John Oldcastle ; Puritan ; Yorkshire tragedy ; Locrine
Item information about Folger PR2752 1709a copy 11 v.2 Sh.Col
Imperfect: v. 2 only. Armorial bookplate (no motto): Robert Briston of London, Gent, 1706. Inscription: Ex dono John Herringman, June [the] 6th, 1709. Gift of Bernard Quaritch to the Folger, with their description bound-in, attributing this as a presentation copy from copyright-holder John Herringman to Briston; other volumes of this broken set were given to the Houghton, Beinecke, and Huntington libraries. In Cambridge-style binding
Also known as
Extended title: The works of Mr. William Shakespear : in six volumes ; adorn'd with cuts / revis'd and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, Esq
Subjects
Related names
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
bookseller: Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736
printmaker: Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725
printmaker: Boitard, François, approximately 1670-approximately 1715
illustrator: Kirkall, Elisha, 1682?-1742
former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
signer: Colman, Eliz. (Elizabeth), active 1755
signer: Edge, E. L. J., d. not before 1709
annotator: Dennis, John, 1825-1911
annotator: Sherwen, John, 1749-1826
signer: Ken, Hugh, d. not before 1709
former owner: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
signer: Fisher, Richd. (Richard), active 1806
signer: Philpott, Richard Stamper, 1827?-1894
former owner: Herringman, John, active 18th century
former owner: Briston, Robert, active 1706
binder: Riviere & Son