The historie of Henry the Fourth : vvith the battell at Shrewsbury, betweene the King, and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henry Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstaffe. Newly corrected, by William Shake-speare.

Accession number: 
PML 5110
Author: 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published: 
London : Printed by John Norton, and are to be sold by Hugh Perry, at his shop next to Ivie-bridge in the Strand, 1639.
Description: 
[80] pages ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit: 
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes: 

Signatures: A-K⁴.

Binding: 
Red morocco.
Variant Title: 

History of Henry the Fourth

Provenance: 
Guillaume Libri, his sale, Paris, 28 June 1847 lot 59, for £8; William N. Lettsom, his sale, 20 Nov. 1865, to Tite; Sir William Tite, inscription: "This copy of Libri's was bought at Lettsom's sale Nov. 27. 1865 for £8.5.0 and extra expenses 10/.," his sale, 18 May 1874, lot 2738 for £5.5.0; Edward G. Asay; Theodore Irwin, purchased from Asay, Dec. 1881; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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