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.

Accession number

PML 15602

Creator

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Published

[London] : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Nathaniel Butter, 1608 [i.e. 1619]

Credit line

Purchased with the Van Antwerp collection, 1907.

Notes

Signatures: A-L⁴.
The imprint date is false; actually printed in 1619 by William Jaggard for the Shakespearian collection of that year (see Greg, III, p. 1107-9).

Description

[88] pages ; 18 cm. (4to)

Inscriptions/Markings

List of "Dramatis Personae" written in a contemporary hand (leaf A1v).

Provenance

Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), armorial binding, his sale, Evans, 11 May 1824; Brayton Ives, monogram booklabel, no. 888 (front pastedown), his sale, New York, 5 March 1891, lot 888 [to Van Antwerp?] for $425; W.C. Van Antwerp, his sale, Sotheby's, 22 March 1907, lot 198 to Quaritch (with collation note by F.S. Ferguson on rear pastedown) for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Van Antwerp collection, 1907.

Binding

19th-century maroon morocco over paper boards, with gilt armorial of Sykes.

Classification

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