Published According to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression], second collected edition, printed in double-column, woodcut decorations and initials, 6 later ms. ff. bound in supplying additional section of Cymbeline, A1 (‘To the Reader’), A2 (title with portrait) and A5 (commendatory verses) plus 8 ff. of main text (c2 and last 7 ff.) all replaced in modern facsimile, 7 further preliminary ff. supplied from another, slightly shorter copy, A1 (first f. of The Tempest) mounted & silked, 5 other ff. silked, a few ff. with later repair to fore-corners, some minor marking and browning, with very occasional 18th century marginalia, handsomely bound in full antique-style calf with terracotta morocco spine label by Bayntun, [STC 22274a; Greg III, p.1113-1115], folio [332 x 226 mm.], [Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot 1632]. *** The second folio edition, and one of the most important editions of Shakespeare’s collected writings. "Though many errors were introduced in the course of reprinting, the text of the present edition shows signs of careful, if unauthorised, revision.” Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration, vol.III, p.1113-1115.facsimile leaves are supplied from the 1909 Methuen edition, sympathetically toned to fit.
Published According to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression], second collected edition, printed in double-column, woodcut decorations and initials, 6 later ms. ff. bound in supplying additional section of Cymbeline, A1 (‘To the Reader’), A2 (title with portrait) and A5 (commendatory verses) plus 8 ff. of main text (c2 and last 7 ff.) all replaced in modern facsimile, 7 further preliminary ff. supplied from another, slightly shorter copy, A1 (first f. of The Tempest) mounted & silked, 5 other ff. silked, a few ff. with later repair to fore-corners, some minor marking and browning, with very occasional 18th century marginalia, handsomely bound in full antique-style calf with terracotta morocco spine label by Bayntun, [STC 22274a; Greg III, p.1113-1115], folio [332 x 226 mm.], [Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot 1632]. *** The second folio edition, and one of the most important editions of Shakespeare’s collected writings. "Though many errors were introduced in the course of reprinting, the text of the present edition shows signs of careful, if unauthorised, revision.” Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration, vol.III, p.1113-1115.facsimile leaves are supplied from the 1909 Methuen edition, sympathetically toned to fit.
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