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Auction archive: Lot number 102

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) Comedies, Histories and Tra...

Estimate
£180,000 - £250,000
ca. US$261,786 - US$363,592
Price realised:
£194,500
ca. US$282,875
Auction archive: Lot number 102

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) Comedies, Histories and Tra...

Estimate
£180,000 - £250,000
ca. US$261,786 - US$363,592
Price realised:
£194,500
ca. US$282,875
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression . Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Robert Allot 1632 [c. 1641].
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression . Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Robert Allot 1632 [c. 1641]. Median 2° (321 x 220mm). 454 leaves: COMPLETE . Roman and italic types. Double column, 66 lines, headlines and catchwords, pages box-ruled, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout in third state. (First 16 leaves with minor worming in lower margin, A2-5 with head-rules just shaved, four tiny rust-holes affecting a few letters, tiny paper flaw in 2r5 just affecting part of the outer border-rule, 4 corners torn without loss of text, some leaves with very light dampstaining, occasional dust-soiling, small stains, slight spotting). 18th-century English mottled calf tooled in blind and gilt, later gilt spine label (rebacked preserving earlier backstrip, repairs at corners and board edges); red morocco pull-off case. PROVENANCE : ‘GB’ initials on *1r, perhaps contemporary; Montague Garrard Drake (1692-1728), of Shardeloes, Bucks., MP for Amersham (bookplate dated 1708 on title verso); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London, 27 November 1923 (collation note on lower pastedown); The Rosenbach Company, New York, before 1929 (typed catalogue notes laid in); Robert Walsingham Martin (1871-1961), of New Rochelle, N.Y. (bookplate; his sale, Parke-Bernet, 12 November 1963, lot 405, $2400); Paul Francis Webster (1907-1984)), noted lyricist (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 24 April 1985, lot 74, $21,000); Albert H. Small. THE SECOND FOLIO , third (and rarest) issue of the second collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. It was shared by the five publishers listed in the colophon, all of whom were proprietors of rights to one or more of the plays. Robert Allot took the largest interest in the edition (STC 22274 and 22274a), which his widow assigned to John Legat the younger and Andrew Crooke the elder in 1637, who were responsible for subsequent issues of the edition c. 1641 (STC 22274e.3 and 22274e.5 [the present issue]). The title-page bears the Allot imprint (Smith's Allot title 3, and its conjugate the "Effigies" leaf variant B). The Second Folio contains JOHN MILTON'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT : an epitaph on Shakespeare in 16 lines, incipit : ‘What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones’; this appears on the same page A5r as ‘Upon the Effigies’ in eight lines, incipit : ‘Spectator, this Lifes Shaddow is; To see.’ The inner forme containing these two poems is recorded in several states (in this copy: ‘Comick’ in line 3, ‘Laugh’ in line 4, ‘passions’ with ligatured double-s in line 6 of the ‘Effigies’ poem); the outer forme contains the title (A2r), whose setting varies according to the publisher in the imprint. Like its predecessor, from which the edition was set page-for-page, the Second Folio has survived in relatively numerous copies, but it is now rarely found in early bindings. A FRESH COPY . COLLATION : pA6 *4 (A1r blank, A1v Ben Jonson's verses To the Reader , A2r letterpress title and Martin Droeshout's engraved portrait of the playwright, verso blank, A3 editors' dedication to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, A4r editors' note To the great variety of Readers , verso blank, A5r verses Upon the Effigies of my worthy Friend, the Author Master William Shakespeare and An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare [the latter by John Milton (1608-74)], verso blank, A6r verses To the memorie of the deceased Author by L. Digges and I.M., verso blank, *1r The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes , verso blank, *2 Ben Jonson's verses To the memory of my beloved, The Author , *3 verses On Worthy Master Shakespeare and his Poems by I.M.S., *4r Hugh Holland's verses Upon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenicke Poet , *4v A Catalogue of all the Comedies, Histories, and Trage

Auction archive: Lot number 102
Auction:
Datum:
25 May 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression . Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Robert Allot 1632 [c. 1641].
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression . Edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627). London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, for Robert Allot 1632 [c. 1641]. Median 2° (321 x 220mm). 454 leaves: COMPLETE . Roman and italic types. Double column, 66 lines, headlines and catchwords, pages box-ruled, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout in third state. (First 16 leaves with minor worming in lower margin, A2-5 with head-rules just shaved, four tiny rust-holes affecting a few letters, tiny paper flaw in 2r5 just affecting part of the outer border-rule, 4 corners torn without loss of text, some leaves with very light dampstaining, occasional dust-soiling, small stains, slight spotting). 18th-century English mottled calf tooled in blind and gilt, later gilt spine label (rebacked preserving earlier backstrip, repairs at corners and board edges); red morocco pull-off case. PROVENANCE : ‘GB’ initials on *1r, perhaps contemporary; Montague Garrard Drake (1692-1728), of Shardeloes, Bucks., MP for Amersham (bookplate dated 1708 on title verso); Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London, 27 November 1923 (collation note on lower pastedown); The Rosenbach Company, New York, before 1929 (typed catalogue notes laid in); Robert Walsingham Martin (1871-1961), of New Rochelle, N.Y. (bookplate; his sale, Parke-Bernet, 12 November 1963, lot 405, $2400); Paul Francis Webster (1907-1984)), noted lyricist (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 24 April 1985, lot 74, $21,000); Albert H. Small. THE SECOND FOLIO , third (and rarest) issue of the second collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. It was shared by the five publishers listed in the colophon, all of whom were proprietors of rights to one or more of the plays. Robert Allot took the largest interest in the edition (STC 22274 and 22274a), which his widow assigned to John Legat the younger and Andrew Crooke the elder in 1637, who were responsible for subsequent issues of the edition c. 1641 (STC 22274e.3 and 22274e.5 [the present issue]). The title-page bears the Allot imprint (Smith's Allot title 3, and its conjugate the "Effigies" leaf variant B). The Second Folio contains JOHN MILTON'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT : an epitaph on Shakespeare in 16 lines, incipit : ‘What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones’; this appears on the same page A5r as ‘Upon the Effigies’ in eight lines, incipit : ‘Spectator, this Lifes Shaddow is; To see.’ The inner forme containing these two poems is recorded in several states (in this copy: ‘Comick’ in line 3, ‘Laugh’ in line 4, ‘passions’ with ligatured double-s in line 6 of the ‘Effigies’ poem); the outer forme contains the title (A2r), whose setting varies according to the publisher in the imprint. Like its predecessor, from which the edition was set page-for-page, the Second Folio has survived in relatively numerous copies, but it is now rarely found in early bindings. A FRESH COPY . COLLATION : pA6 *4 (A1r blank, A1v Ben Jonson's verses To the Reader , A2r letterpress title and Martin Droeshout's engraved portrait of the playwright, verso blank, A3 editors' dedication to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, A4r editors' note To the great variety of Readers , verso blank, A5r verses Upon the Effigies of my worthy Friend, the Author Master William Shakespeare and An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare [the latter by John Milton (1608-74)], verso blank, A6r verses To the memorie of the deceased Author by L. Digges and I.M., verso blank, *1r The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes , verso blank, *2 Ben Jonson's verses To the memory of my beloved, The Author , *3 verses On Worthy Master Shakespeare and his Poems by I.M.S., *4r Hugh Holland's verses Upon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenicke Poet , *4v A Catalogue of all the Comedies, Histories, and Trage

Auction archive: Lot number 102
Auction:
Datum:
25 May 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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