Accession number
PML 5115
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
[London] : Printed by Iames Roberts [i.e. by William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier], 1600 [i.e. 1619]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Collation: A-H⁴
Second quarto, with false imprint. Actually printed in 1619 by William Jaggard (see Greg, III, p. 1107-9).
Title page device: heraldic shield (McKerrow 136) with half eagle and key, enclosed in circular band bearing words: Post tenebras lux (arms and motto of the city of Geneva); ornamental border at head of t.p.; head and tail pieces at beginning and end of text.
Second quarto, with false imprint. Actually printed in 1619 by William Jaggard (see Greg, III, p. 1107-9).
Title page device: heraldic shield (McKerrow 136) with half eagle and key, enclosed in circular band bearing words: Post tenebras lux (arms and motto of the city of Geneva); ornamental border at head of t.p.; head and tail pieces at beginning and end of text.
Description
[64] pages ; 18 cm(4to)
Provenance
George Steevens, signature, (leaf A1r); John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe, his sale, Evans, 18 May 1812, lot 3381 to Heber for £3.3; Richard Heber, Bibliotheca Heberiana sale, part IV, Evans, 8 Dec. 1834, lot 2013; John Gardiner Kinnear (1794-1865), armorial binding, his library sold by Thorpe in 1825; Edward G. Asay; Theodore Irwin, purchased from Asay, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Maroon morocco, with gilt arms of Kinnear.
Classification
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