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Lot 12
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio. London: [Robert Roberts and others for] H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, never before Printed in Folio. London: [Robert Roberts and others for] H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.
Folio (368 x 229 mm). Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout above the verses "To the Reader" on verso of the first leaf. Title with fleur-de-lis device [McKerrow 263]. Double column text within typographical rules. Woodcut initials. Collation: π2, π A4, A-Y6 Z4, [2]B-2Z6 *3A-*3D6 *3E8 3A-4B6 4C2, L1 set in smaller type as usual. Contemporary calf, rebacked, corners renewed, spine titled in gilt. Lacking three leaves (Rr2, *Ddd1 and 6), some light browning and spotting throughout, a few small holes or marginal tears (including F1, Z1, Nn1, Ss3 and Fff2.
Provenance Lord Sandys (armorial bookplate).
FOURTH FOLIO EDITION of the "most important work in the English language" (Pforzheimer). This is the Brewster/Bentley issue; all three issues of the fourth folio were probably issued contemporaneously. An unusually tall copy. Bartlett 123b; Pforzheimer 911; Wing S-2917.
Folio (368 x 229 mm). Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout above the verses "To the Reader" on verso of the first leaf. Title with fleur-de-lis device [McKerrow 263]. Double column text within typographical rules. Woodcut initials. Collation: π2, π A4, A-Y6 Z4, [2]B-2Z6 *3A-*3D6 *3E8 3A-4B6 4C2, L1 set in smaller type as usual. Contemporary calf, rebacked, corners renewed, spine titled in gilt. Lacking three leaves (Rr2, *Ddd1 and 6), some light browning and spotting throughout, a few small holes or marginal tears (including F1, Z1, Nn1, Ss3 and Fff2.
Provenance Lord Sandys (armorial bookplate).
FOURTH FOLIO EDITION of the "most important work in the English language" (Pforzheimer). This is the Brewster/Bentley issue; all three issues of the fourth folio were probably issued contemporaneously. An unusually tall copy. Bartlett 123b; Pforzheimer 911; Wing S-2917.