Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus

Folger bibliographic ID: 180749
ESTC number: T54733
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare, 1700-1740: 295
Folger call number: PR2752 1734-35b copy 9 v. 5 item 4 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 422489
Accession Number: No case or acc. number present

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

Anonymous; by William Shakespeare Imprint from colophon There exist two variant states of this edition with the same settings of type, which can be determined by the imprint on the colophon. In some copies, the imprint is printed on the page itself, using Roman numerals for the date. Other copies have a slip with the imprint, using Arabic numbers, printed on it, pasted onto the colophon Signatures: A-C¹²; leaf C12 is blank Also issued as part of Tonson's edition of the Works of Shakespeare, v. 5, 1735 Engraved frontispiece lettered: v. 7, p. 111, Lud. Du Guernier inv. et sculp., 17

Item information about Folger PR2752 1734-35b copy 9 v. 5 item 4 Sh.Col

Copy 9 consists of 8 vols. of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1734-35 by Tonson, bound in a different order than the collected works, and lacking vol. title pages; this play is the fourth of six in v. 5. Imprint with Roman numerals. Mottled calf binding with marbled endpapers. Gift of Henry N. Paul

Uniform title: Titus Andronicus

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
bookseller: Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735
illustrator: Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
signer: Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892