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MR. WILLIAM

SHAKESPEAR'S

Comedies, Hiftories, and Tragedies.

Published according to the true Original Copies.

The third Impreffion.

And unto this Impreffion is added feven Playes, never
before Printed in Folio.

viz

Pericles Prince of Tyre.
The London Prodigall.

The Hiftory of Thomas Ld Cromwell.
Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham.
The Puritan Widow.

A Tork-shire Tragedy.

The Tragedy of Locrine.

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5 THE THIRD FOLIO. 1664.

MR. WILLIAM

SHAKESPEAR'S

COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES.
Published according to the true Original Copies.
The Third Impression.

And unto this Impression is added Seven Playes, never
before Printed in Folio.

viz.:

Pericles Prince of Tyre.

The London Prodigall.

The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell.

Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham.

The Puritan Widow.

A Yorkshire Tragedy.

The Tragedy of Locrine.

(Device with motto)

London, Printed for P. C., 1664.

A Fine Copy of the excessively rare Third Folio (the portrait with verse beneath remargined and part in facsimile; and the inside margin of dedication repaired).

Thick folio. Full brown morocco gilt, g. e.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. II.)

£875

The third folio ranks next to the first in point of rarity, the greater part of the copies having been destroyed in the great fire of London.

This is a very fine crisp copy, in beautiful condition, with the exception of the small defects noted.

WITH THE EXCESSIVELY RARE IMPRINT OF JOSEPH Knight. 6 THE FOURTH FOLIO. 1685.

7

London, Printed for H. Herringman, and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Frances Saunders at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1685.

Folio. Old calf, rebacked.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. III.)

£275

A tall copy of this the rarest of the variant imprints which occur in the Fourth Folio. The Portrait is genuine, but remargined; bottom corner of title in facsimile, and a few other repairs.

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WITH THE HERRINGMAN IMPRINT.

THE FOURTH FOLIO. 1685.

London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Pauls Church-Yard, and in Russel-street, Covent-Garden. 1685.

Folio. Bound by Pratt in full calf, g. e. A fine copy of the Fourth Folio. The Portrait and Title are genuine. The Portrait is margined and the letters "B.J." in facsimile. Title and a few other leaves also margined.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. IV.)

8 THE FOURTH FOLIO. 1685. Another Copy.

Folio. Original calf (rebacked).

£105

London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and

R. Bentley. 1685.

Portrait and title in facsimile. Portion of the last leaf renewed.

£85

9

SIR CHARLES ALDIS'S COPY

OF THE

FIRST ILLUSTRATED AND FIRST OCTAVO EDITION.

WORKS. In Six Volumes.

Adorn'd with Cuts.

Revis'd and Corrected, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by N. Rowe,

Esq.

Together with the RARE SEVENTH VOLUME OF POEMS.

Portrait of Shakespeare in each volume of the Plays, a fullpage illustration to each Play, and Frontispiece to the Poems.

7

vols., 8vo. Old calf (new backs).

London: Tonson, 1709.

(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. V.)

£65

From the Library of Sir Charles Aldis (1775?-1863), Surgeon and Antiquary, with his Autograph Signature on the title-page of the seventh volume. The volumes were evidently read with great care, especially the volume of the poems, in which numerous passages have been marked by Sir Charles Aldis as being of special interest, and in some cases manuscript notes have been added by him.

In importance and interest this edition ranks second to the editio princeps. It is the first manual text, the first to present a biography of the poet, the first to bear an editor's name, the first to possess illustration, and the first of the endless army of editions in octavo. The text is copied from the fourth folio of 1685.

Rowe commissioned Thomas Betterton, the actor, to glean for him in and around Stratford particulars of Shakespeare's life. At that period it was still possible to get a few authentic details.

The attributed plays are also found in this version, and the plates are of no small value because of their contemporary costume. In this issue will also be found the earliest effort to trace parallels between Shakespeare and other classics.

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