Shakespeare, William. COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINAL COPIES. LONDON: FOR P[HILIP]. C[HETWIND], 1664 Folio (340 x 219 mm.), 3 parts in 1 volume, 514 leaves, the third collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, second issue with the 1664 title and seven additional plays added at the end, engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout (printed on A1v, with Ben Jonson's verses on the portrait below), woodcut head-pieces and initials, text in double column, nineteenth-century red morocco richly decorated in gilt by Francis Bedford all edges gilt, preserved in matching red cloth chemise and full red morocco pull-off case, neatly repaired tears at inner margin of portrait leaf, last leaf of A Winter's Tale supplied from another copy (inlaid to size), some neat restorations of a few of the lower corners and outer margins (Henry IV Part 2, with no apparent loss of text) Collation: πA4 (±A1 and A2) [A3 incorrectly signed A2] b6 A-2A6 2B8 2C-4D6 4E4 a6 b4 *-4*4 ¶A-¶B6 ¶C-¶F4 ¶G6
Shakespeare, William. COMEDIES, HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINAL COPIES. LONDON: FOR P[HILIP]. C[HETWIND], 1664 Folio (340 x 219 mm.), 3 parts in 1 volume, 514 leaves, the third collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, second issue with the 1664 title and seven additional plays added at the end, engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout (printed on A1v, with Ben Jonson's verses on the portrait below), woodcut head-pieces and initials, text in double column, nineteenth-century red morocco richly decorated in gilt by Francis Bedford all edges gilt, preserved in matching red cloth chemise and full red morocco pull-off case, neatly repaired tears at inner margin of portrait leaf, last leaf of A Winter's Tale supplied from another copy (inlaid to size), some neat restorations of a few of the lower corners and outer margins (Henry IV Part 2, with no apparent loss of text) Collation: πA4 (±A1 and A2) [A3 incorrectly signed A2] b6 A-2A6 2B8 2C-4D6 4E4 a6 b4 *-4*4 ¶A-¶B6 ¶C-¶F4 ¶G6
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