Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Source Title:
[Works. 1623] Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
Source Created or Published:
1623
Physical Description:
sig. A1r (p. 1 of Comedies): first page of "The Tempest"
Source Call Number:
STC 22273 Fo.1 no.75
Digital Image File Name:
62720
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
79358
Hamnet Holdings ID:
81393
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Plays. 1623
Title (Hamnet):
Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
First folio of Shakespeare
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Shakespeare's first folio
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Shakespeare first folio
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
1623.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[18], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 [i.e. 399], [1] p. : 1 port. (engraving) ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Notes (Hamnet):
Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.
Notes (Hamnet):
Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Notes (Hamnet):
Stationers' register: Entered to Blount and I. Jaggard 8 November [1623]
Notes (Hamnet):
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶([superscript pi]A1 1, [superscript pi]A5 1.2), A-2B⁶, 2C², a-g⁶, [superscript chi]2g⁸, h-v⁶, x⁴, "gg3.4"(±"gg3"), [par.]-2[par.]⁶, 3[par.]1, 2a-2f⁶, 2g², "Gg⁶", 2h⁶, 2k-3b⁶.
Notes (Hamnet):
The title page ([superscript pi]A1 1) is letterpress except for a large portrait of Shakespeare, engraved by Martin Droeshout.
Notes (Hamnet):
"The life and death of King Iohn" begins new pagination on leaf a1r; "The tragedy of Coriolanus" begins new pagination on leaf 2a1r.
Notes (Hamnet):
Page 399 misnumbered '993'.
Notes (Hamnet):
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Fame, Fortune, and Theft. DFo
Notes (Hamnet):
In Folger copy 75, [superscript pi]A1 is inlaid, with a few letters of the text proper and the author's initials "B. I." completed in ms. facsim.; [superscript pi]A1 1 (title leaf) is mounted.
Notes (Hamnet):
Port. (on t.p.) in state 3.
Notes (Hamnet):
The following leaves, recorded as treated by Riviere in 1902, now show no obvious signs of such: Y5, p5,6, and q1 or q2.
Notes (Hamnet):
Imperfections affect text slightly on 16 leaves.
Notes (Hamnet):
No list of uncorrected states on file.
Notes (Hamnet):
Bears inscriptions: "Constanter" ([superscript pi]A1 1 recto (t.p.); "Andrew Wilson M.D." ([superscript pi]A2 recto); and "Miss Stodart 1761" (3b6 verso).
Notes (Hamnet):
Other ms. additions include a list of dramatis personae at the end of Titus (2e2 verso), Caesar (2l5 verso), Macbeth (2n4 recto), Hamlet (2q1 verso), Lear (2s3 recto), and Antony (2z2 verso).
Notes (Hamnet):
Accompanied by 5 separate mss. about the provenance, condition, and possible treatment of this copy: (1) aut. let. sig. by John Field to John Halkett, dated Dec. 28, 1835, with ms. endorsement sig. by Halkett, dated Jan. 1836; (2) aut. let. sig. by Halkett to Coutts Trotter, dated from Richmond Hill, Feb. 5, 1836; (3) memorandum unsig. and undated, "Extract from Mrs [Anne (Trotter)] Lindsay's letter to Col. [James] Lindsay--June. 1836"; (4) aut. let. sig. by Lord Lindsay (later 25th earl of Crawford) to Anne (Trotter) Lindsay, dated Aug. 1, 1864; and (5) memorandum unsig. by [Lady Wantage?], dated 1902. (All removed to file.)
Notes (Hamnet):
Sir Coutts Trotter--Anne (Trotter) Lindsay--baron Wantage--27th earl of Crawford copy.
Citations (Hamnet):
STC (2nd ed.) 22273
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) S111228
Citations (Hamnet):
West, A.J. Shakespeare first folio, 133
Citations (Hamnet):
Lee, S. Notes and additions, 1
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Heminge, John, ca. 1556-1630.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Condell, Henry, d. 1627.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Jaggard, Isaac, d. 1627, bookseller.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, bookseller.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Blount, Edward, fl. 1588-1632, bookseller.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Smethwicke, John, d. 1641, bookseller.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Aspley, William, d. 1640, bookseller.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, printer.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Droeshout, Martin, b. 1601, printmaker.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of, 1871-1940, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Lindsay, Anne Trotter, b. 1803, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Trotter, Coutts, Sir, 1767-1837, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Wantage, Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, Lord, 1832-1901, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Wilson, Andrew, 1718-1792, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, Earl of, 1812-1880.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Field, John, fl. 1835.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Halkett, John, fl. 1835-1836.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Lindsay, Anne Trotter, b. 1803.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Wantage, Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness, 1837-1920.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Stodart, Miss, fl. 1761, former owner.
Call Number (Hamnet):
STC 22273 Fo.1 no.75

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