Beschreibung:

Shakespeare, William COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL COPIES. THE SECOND IMPRESSION. THOMAS COTES FOR JOHN SMETHWICK, WILLIAM ASPLEY, RICHARD HAWKINS RICHARD MEIGHEN, AND ROBERT ALLOT 1632 Folio (328 x 218mm.), collation (of a complete copy): [PI]A6 *4 , A-2B6 2C2 , a-y6, 2a-3c6 3d4 , 441 out of 454 leaves, the second collected edition of shakespeare's plays, woodcut head-pieces and initials, text in double column, 66 lines, roman and italic type, headlines and catchwords, six-line inscription in a near contemporary hand on front endpaper ("next door to ye hand & shears | nere Shore ditch Church In Bunnill | Fields | Mrs Woolmer's over against ye | pla[ ] yard near ye Kings head | in fettter laine nere Holborne"), modern brown morocco decorated in blind and gilt, red morocco label on spine, spine lettered in gilt (erroneously giving this as the First Folio, 1623), additional new endpapers, preliminary leaf [P]A3 (misprinted as [P]A3) detached (also cut down and repaired at inner margin, and torn at corners with loss of text), lacking all the other 9 preliminary leaves and final 5 leaves of "Cymbeline" at the end (3c6 and 3d4), *4 supplied in modern facsimile, later reprint of First Folio title page loosely inserted, with re-engraved portrait (this leaf torn at edges with loss), 3c5 repaired at lower corner, some slight damp-staining, spotting or browning to some leaves, slight worming at inner margin to a few leaves in the middle (not affecting text), some leaves slightly soiled