Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
07-08 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/975
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    222 SHAKESPEARE (W.) COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGE- DIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL Copies. THE SECOND Impression, SECOND FOLIO EDITION, portrair By DROESHOUT ON TITLE, a small piece cut from blank corner of title, a few slight stains, a minute hole in fwe leaves (A 4 preliminary; 01, T 2, V 2, 13), one or two rules gust touched, corner of last leaf defective, shghtly affecting the rule; old russia gilt, Gawmsborough copy; A LARGE AND FINE COPY IN VERY GOOD. CONDITION 7 folio (18¢, in. by 841n.) London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard 1632 223 SHAKESPEARE (W.) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, THIRD FOLIO EDITION, 399 ll. (should be 514 ll.), unbound; sold not subject to return folio (134 1m. by 841in.) [1664] ** The missing leaves are: all before sig. N (= 821l.); a-m6; P-Q 6; gq 1-2; 1113; Kkk 2-7; 000 3-4; Qqqq 2-5; JB6-f[co2; fp4-Je1; fe4; the last leaf is defective. The body of the book is in very good condition with wide margins.
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