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Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the true original coppies.

Accession number
PML 5128
Creator
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Published
London, Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
1st issue of 3rd edition.
Copy has 2 t.p.'s viz. those of the lot and 2nd issue of the ed.
Description
9 p.l., 877 (i.e 887), 20, 100 p. front. (port.) 33 cm
Provenance
Pickering Bookseller, label; Theodore Irwin, newspaper clipping tipped-in on the sale of another copy slightly taller than this, signed by Irwin, June 1894; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900; Pierpont Morgan Library.
Binding
Red gilt-tooled morocco over paper boards by Francis Bedford. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; all edges gilt.
Classification
Department