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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.
The Merchant of Venice. [London: Printed for Thomas Cotes, 1632.]

6 March 2020, 10:00 EST
New York

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.

The Merchant of Venice. [London: Printed for Thomas Cotes, 1632.]
Folio (310 x 218 mm). 22 pp, numbered 163-184. Modern green morocco backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, minor darkening to leaves.

"THE QUALITY OF MERCY IS NOT STRAINED.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."


The 1632 Second Folio printing of one of Shakespeare's greatest, and most controversial, comedies, containing one of the greatest of his speeches, Portia's plea to Shylock on "the quality of mercy."

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