Accession number
PML 15603
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
Printed at London : [by William Jaggard] for T[homas]. P[avier]., [1619]
Credit line
Purchased with the Van Antwerp collection, 1907.
Notes
Printer and publisher's names suppliied by STC.
Signatures: A-Q⁴; chi1[=2B2?] R-2A⁴ 2B²(-2B2).
Corrupt and shorter versions, possibly memorial reconstructions, of "Henry VI", parts 2-3, by William Shakespeare, which first appeared in finished form in the First Folio. Also reprints "Pericles Prince of Tyre".
The third, "bad" quarto edition (first, 1594).
Intended to be issued as part of William Jaggard's Shakespearian collection of ten plays (Greg, III, p. 1107-9).
First ed. of the two parts together to which was originally joined the Pericles of the same date.
PML copy is quires A-Q only, without the Pericles of the ESTC record.
Signatures: A-Q⁴; chi1[=2B2?] R-2A⁴ 2B²(-2B2).
Corrupt and shorter versions, possibly memorial reconstructions, of "Henry VI", parts 2-3, by William Shakespeare, which first appeared in finished form in the First Folio. Also reprints "Pericles Prince of Tyre".
The third, "bad" quarto edition (first, 1594).
Intended to be issued as part of William Jaggard's Shakespearian collection of ten plays (Greg, III, p. 1107-9).
First ed. of the two parts together to which was originally joined the Pericles of the same date.
PML copy is quires A-Q only, without the Pericles of the ESTC record.
Description
[196] ; 18 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Thomas Jefferson McKee, bookplate (front pastedown); William Van Antwerp, his sale, Sotheby's, 22-23 March 1907, lot 200 to Quaritch (with collation note by F.S. Ferguson, rear pastedown) for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Van Antwerp collection, 1907.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled maroon morocco by David Domont; rebacked.
Classification
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