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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies ... the second impression . London: Tho[mas] Cotes for Robert Allot 1632.
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies ... the second impression . London: Tho[mas] Cotes for Robert Allot 1632. 2° (334 x 205mm). Double column within rules. ('To the Reader' leaf, title leaf with portrait and final leaf ddd4 in facsimile, \K p\kA5 supplied from the first reissue, overall washed and pressed, some leaves remaining slightly soiled and stained, small burnhole in D5, Q5 with minor paper fault, s3 and nn6 with closed tears in text, ink stain on dd3v, bbb4-ddd3 with filled wormtrace causing slight loss to lower left hand corner of text, quire ccc with marginal repairs.) Red morocco gilt by Lloyd of London for Thomas Edward Watson with his arms on upper cover, gilt spine compartments directly lettered, gilt edges. Provenance : Sir Thomas Edward Watson of Newport (1851-1921, binding and bookplate), thence by descent. SECOND FOLIO. As Greg notes, it was a page-for-page reprint of the first folio of 1623. Even the number of leaves is the same, an extra leaf in the preliminaries being offset by the saving of one in the Tragedies through the avoidance of two blank pages. While errors were introduced in the course of reprinting, 'the text of the present edition shows signs of careful, if unauthoritative, revision.' There was two reissues of the Second Folio, possibly upon the death of Thomas Cotes in 1641, the title \K p\kA2 and its conjugate \K p\kA5 with Milton's verses being reprinted on thicker paper than that of the original. Greg III, pp. 1113-16; Pforzheimer 906; STC 22274.