M. VVilliam Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters. : With the vnfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty at White-Hall, vppon S. Stephens night, in Christmas hollidaies. By his Maiesties Seruants, playing vsually at the Globe on the Banck-side

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Reference citation note: Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, I, 265(b)

Reference citation note: Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 887

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Copy note: Trunk 7H4. Dark purple (?) goatskin armorial binding (by Lewis?), with elaborate goatskin doublures. With stop-press corrections in the outer forme of quire A (cf. other Folger copies of this work; see Folger worksheet file). Manuscript bibliographical note in the hand of Halliwell-Phillips. Provenance: gilt armorial crest of Sir Francis Freeling (motto "nunquam nisi honorificentissime"); James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps copy (with his manuscript note: "I purchased this fine copy of King Lear of Mr Ellis of King Street, Covent Garden ..."); bookplate of Warwick Castle, Shakespeare Library