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Shakespeare, William. MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES COMEDIES, HISTORIES, & TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL COPIES. LONDON: PRINTED BY ISAAC IAGGARD, AND ED. BLOUNT, 1623 Folio (330 × 210mm.), 438 (out of 454) leaves, nineteenth-century maroon crushed morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves, preserved in red cloth chemise and matching quarter red morocco slipcase, lacking 17 leaves: all before A6 except A5 (i.e. all prelims except Hugh Holland's verses "Vpon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenicke Poet..." , the first two acts of The Tempest) and the last three leaves (end of Cymbeline, publisher's colophon), these all supplied in photo- facsimile on a variety of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century papers; several other leaves (c.14) with repaired marginal repairs, a few other tears (most notably at the inner column of bbb3, where about 29 words have been supplied over a repair; also f1 in Henry IV Part I, near inner margin); some occasional staining and spotting (most noticeably from aaa2 to the end), very slight worming to inner margins from hh1 onwards (chiefly between Timon of Athens and Hamlet), upper hinge starting, slight wear at joints Collation (of a complete copy): πA6 (1+1) B2, A-Z, Aa-Bb6 Cc2, a-g6, gg8, h-v6 x4, χ1 = ±2gg3, χ2 = 2gg4, ¶ - ¶¶6 ¶¶¶1, aa-ff6 2gg6 (±1.2, ±3= χ1, 4= χ2, -5, -6) 3gg-hh6 , kk-zz aaa-bbb6, 454 leaves