Shakespeare, William COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINAL COPIES. UNTO WHICH IS ADDED, SEVEN PLAYS, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN FOLIO: VIZ. PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE. THE LONDON PRODIGAL. THE HISTORY OF THOMAS LORD CROMWEL. SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE LORD COBHAM. THE PURITAN WIDOW. A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY. THE TRAGEDY OF LOCRINE. THE FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: FOR H. HERRINGMAN, E. BREWSTER, AND R. BENTLEY, 1685 Folio (14 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.; 358 x 231 mm). Engraved frontispiece by Droesshout above Jonson's verses, printer's woodcut device (McKerrow 263) on title, woodcut initials, several signatures in the Histories corrected or supplied in manuscript as usual; frontispiece skillfully remargined without loss, the edges of the portrait perhaps imperceptibly retouched and a small rust-hole filled upper right, title and several other leaves skillfully remargined with occasional bits of the border-rules supplied in skillful facsimile, scattered natural paper faults here and there costing a few letters as usual. Red morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt dentelles, edges gilt extremities somewhat rubbed, inner hinges strarting.
Shakespeare, William COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINAL COPIES. UNTO WHICH IS ADDED, SEVEN PLAYS, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN FOLIO: VIZ. PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE. THE LONDON PRODIGAL. THE HISTORY OF THOMAS LORD CROMWEL. SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE LORD COBHAM. THE PURITAN WIDOW. A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY. THE TRAGEDY OF LOCRINE. THE FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: FOR H. HERRINGMAN, E. BREWSTER, AND R. BENTLEY, 1685 Folio (14 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.; 358 x 231 mm). Engraved frontispiece by Droesshout above Jonson's verses, printer's woodcut device (McKerrow 263) on title, woodcut initials, several signatures in the Histories corrected or supplied in manuscript as usual; frontispiece skillfully remargined without loss, the edges of the portrait perhaps imperceptibly retouched and a small rust-hole filled upper right, title and several other leaves skillfully remargined with occasional bits of the border-rules supplied in skillful facsimile, scattered natural paper faults here and there costing a few letters as usual. Red morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt dentelles, edges gilt extremities somewhat rubbed, inner hinges strarting.
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