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• Title:[Plays.]
  Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
  
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• Variant Title:Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies
  Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, & tragedies
  
• Author/Creator:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller.
  Smethwicke, John, -1641, bookseller.
  Aspley, John, bookseller.
  Hawkins, Richard, -1637?, bookseller.
  Meighan, Richard, bookseller.
  Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
  Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630, writer of introduction.
  Condell, Henry, -1627, writer of introduction.
  Droeshout, John, -1652, engraver.
  Burns, John, 1858-1943, former owner.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS medium oversizeWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR2751 .A2 1632
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:c.1 text In Process 08-29-2022
    
  • Location Has:text + supplementary documentation + enclosure
    
    

   
• Edition:The second impression.
  
• Description:[20], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, 168, 269-419, [1] pages : 1 portrait (engraving) ; 34 cm (folio)
  
• Local note:UBC Library copy complete except that the "To the Reader" leaf is supplied in facsimile. Accompanied by documentation relevant to provenance and to some historical details of the earliest editions of Shakespeare. With a red morocco slipcase bound by Rivière.
  
• Notes:With an engraved title page portrait of the author signed: Martin Droeshout, sculpsit, London.
  Dedicatory and introductory text signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.
  Three issues of the Second Folio, with typographical and textual differences in title and edition statement, and nine variants of the imprint on the title page, exist. The "Effigies" page also exists in three states, known as A-C. Allot was a bookseller associated with all three issues; the "Effigies" page is seen in all states in copies sold by Allot.
  This variant appears to be a late "variant 1b" in William B. Todd's "Issues and states of the Second Folio and Milton's epitaph on Shakespeare," Studies in bibliography, v. 5 (1952-53), pages 81-108. The letter f in "and are to be fold", usually found on the title page of this variant, appears to have been corrected in the pressroom to read as an s, thus "and are to be sold".
  Colophon reads: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632.
  Signatures: ¹A⁶ *⁴ ²A-2B⁶ 2C² a-y⁶ 2a-3c⁶ 3d⁴.
  Woodcut initials; head- and tail-pieces.
  
• Cited in:Sotheby & Co. (London, England). Catalogue of the famous library of the late Rt. Hon. John Burns, P.C., M.P. (sold by order of the administrators), Lot 592
  STC (2nd ed.), 22274a
  Greg, III, p. 1113-5()
  ESTC, S111235