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• Title:[Plays. First Folio]
  Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
  
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• Variant Title:Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies
  Comedies, histories & tragedies
  Comedies, histories, and tragedies
  
• Author/Creator:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Condell, Henry, -1627, editor.
  Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630, editor.
  Droeshout, Martin, 1601- engraver.
  Jaggard, Isaac, -1627, printer.
  Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, printer, bookseller.
  Smethwicke, John, -1641, bookseller.
  Aspley, William, -1640, bookseller.
  Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1751-1812, former owner.
  Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1786-1859, former owner.
  Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1824-1871, former owner.
  Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1849-1885, former owner.
  Aylesford, Charles Wightwick Finch, Earl of, 1851-1924, former owner.
  Pease, John William, 1836-1928, former owner.
  Pease, Howard, 1863-1928, former owner.
  Maclean, Florence Pease, 1867-1947, former owner.
  Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 1886-1959, former owner.
  Meisei Daigaku. Toshokan, former owner.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS medium oversizeWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR2751 .A1 1623
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Copy Note:Restricted use. Please email rare.books@ubc.ca to request access.
    

   
• Description:[18], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 [that is, 399], [1] pages : 1 portrait (engraving) ; 32 cm (folio)
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Local note:UBC Library copy complete except that the “To the Reader” leaf (leaf A1) is supplied from a Second Folio. Title-page mounted at an early date on old leaf within manuscript rule-frame. Final leaf mounted on a stub, but original and from this copy. This copy has the binding variant in which the preliminary signature designated "[superscript pi][B]²" has been inserted before [superscript pi]A6. Bound by L. Staggemeier and Samuel Welcher in red morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, edges gilt. Listed as number 202 in: Rasmussen, E. Shakespeare First Folios. Listed as number 5174 in the Shakespeare Census.
  
• Notes:First folio edition; second issue.
  Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.
  Mostly in verse.
  The first collected edition of the plays of William Shakespeare. Two of his fellow actors and closest friends, John Heminge and Henry Condell, undertook the work of editing the text and supervising the printing by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount. Only half of Shakespeare's plays had been published previously, all in smaller formats and some poorly edited.
  With an engraved title-page portrait of the author signed: "Martin· Droeshout: sculpsit· London." The first state of the portrait has no shadow on the collar; the second state (found in this second issue of the first folio edition) has a shadow.
  Colophon reads: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley. 1623.
  Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ ([superscript pi]A1+1) [superscript pi][B]²; A-Bb⁶ Cc²; a-g⁶ [superscript chi]gg⁸ h-v⁶ x⁴; [chi]² [par.]-2[par.]⁶ 3[par.]1 aa-ff⁶ gg² Gg⁶ hh⁶ kk-bbb⁶.
  "The life and death of King Iohn" begins new pagination on leaf a1r; "The tragedy of Coriolanus" begins new pagination on leaf 2a1r.
  Error in pagination: 399 misnumbered 993.
  Predominantly printed in double columns.
  Woodcut head- and tail- pieces; woodcut initials.
  
• Cited in:English short title catalogue, S111228
  Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 22273
  Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, III, pages 1109-1112
  Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 905
  Rasmussen, E. Shakespeare First Folios, 202
  Hooks, Adam G. Shakespeare census, SC5174