Accession number
PML 20873
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
London : printed by N[icholas]. O[kes]. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Eagle and Child, in Brittans Bursse, 1622.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
First edition.
Lower edges of some leaves trimmed, one or two corners of leaves missing; last leaf stained, light stains.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A² B-M⁴ N².
Stationers' Register: Entered to Walkley, 6 Oct. 1621.
Lower edges of some leaves trimmed, one or two corners of leaves missing; last leaf stained, light stains.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A² B-M⁴ N².
Stationers' Register: Entered to Walkley, 6 Oct. 1621.
Description
[4], 80, 89-99, [1] pages ; 20 cm (4to)
Provenance
Ann Benson, signature, 18th century(?) (title page); unidentified shelf marks: K.c.18, Z5:4, 25.b.17 (front fly leaves); Sir Frederick Lyster, of South Kensington, purchased from the Lyster family by the Museum Book Store (London) in a bundle of books and tracts, 1919 [Lyster provenance from note in volume by Belle Greene]; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from L.M. Thompson, 1919.
Binding
Modern calf by Deborah Evetts, 1972.
Classification
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