Accession number
PML 5123
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
London : printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount [at the charges of W. Iaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley], 1623.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1896.
Notes
"The life and death of King Iohn" begins new pagination on leaf a1r; "The tragedy of Coriolanus" begins new pagination on leaf 2a1r.
Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, J. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.
Entered to Blount and I. Jaggard 8 November [1623] in Stationers' Company register.
For details on the printing of this item see Charleton Hinman, "The printing and proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare" (Oxford, 1963).
Numerous errors in pagination.
PML copy is third issue, with Prologue (recto) and reprinted first page (verso) to Troilus and Cressida, bound before Coriolanus (see Blayney, p. 24).
PML copy with engraving in state 2.
PML copy with repair to title page portrait: early repairs to tears across title page and section of engraving missing, possibly replaced with section of engraving from Second Folio.
PML copy: title-page measures 32 cm.
Title page is an insert.
With an engraved title-page portrait of the author signed: "Martin· Droeshout: sculpsit· London." State 1 has no shadow on the ruff under the hair; state 2 has a shadow.
Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, J. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.
Entered to Blount and I. Jaggard 8 November [1623] in Stationers' Company register.
For details on the printing of this item see Charleton Hinman, "The printing and proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare" (Oxford, 1963).
Numerous errors in pagination.
PML copy is third issue, with Prologue (recto) and reprinted first page (verso) to Troilus and Cressida, bound before Coriolanus (see Blayney, p. 24).
PML copy with engraving in state 2.
PML copy with repair to title page portrait: early repairs to tears across title page and section of engraving missing, possibly replaced with section of engraving from Second Folio.
PML copy: title-page measures 32 cm.
Title page is an insert.
With an engraved title-page portrait of the author signed: "Martin· Droeshout: sculpsit· London." State 1 has no shadow on the ruff under the hair; state 2 has a shadow.
Description
[18], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 [i.e. 399], [1] pages : 1 portrait (engraving) ; 34 cm
Provenance
George Hooker(?), 1646, signature (title page, more visible under UV); Johann Heinrich Hadermann (1710-1785, of Schlüchtern, Germany), inscription: "Ex Bibliotheca J.H. Hadermanni" (title page); Box 3-7 (on front fly leaf, Edward G. Asay?); Edward G. Asay, purchased in 1872 for $5000, consigned to Henry Sotheran, 1896; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Sotheran, 11 June 1896.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled green morocco by William Pratt.
Classification
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