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A Yorkshire tragedie. Not so new, as lamentable and true. VVritten by VV. Shakespeare.

Accession number
PML 5102
Published
[London] : Printed [by William Jaggard] for T[homas]. P[avier]., 1619.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
2nd edition.
Signatures: pi1[=D4] A-C⁴ D⁴(-D4).
Printed by William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier. The second edition (first, 1608). The title was printed on D₄, and the leaf was transferred to the beginning. This is one of ten plays reprinted by Jaggard in 1619, possibly as a part of a collection for which a general title page was never printed. The attribution to Shakespeare occurs both in the Stationer's Register entry and on the title page to the first edition.
Description
[32] pages ; 18 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Almon Whiting Griswold, armorial binding, his sale, New York, 9 Jan. 1878; Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Red morocco with Griswold gilt arms on sides, by Francis Bedford.
Classification
Department