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Credit: Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Shakespeare (William)—continued. 344 K,. Henry IV, with the Humours of Sir John Falstaff. A Tragi-Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields by His Majestys Servants. Revived, with Alterations. FIRST EDITION OF THOMAS BETTERTON’S VERSION. Ato, half morocco. London, Printed for R. W., tyoo. £19 10s A few headlines slightly shaved and small hole in H’. 345 Othello, the Moor of Venice. A Tragedy. Sm. 8vo, sprinkled calf, g.e. Dublin, Printed for Peter Wilson, 1751. £4 4s A scarce Irish edition. With the leaf of Book ‘‘ Advertisements *’ at end. 346 Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia. Acted at the Theatre Royall, a Tragedy. Alter’d from Mr. Shakespears Works, by Mr. Edw. Ravenscroft. FIRST EDITION. 4to, half morocco. London, Printed by J. B. for J]. Hindmarsh, 1687. £14 14s Natural defect in D’, affecting several words, otherwise a fine copy. 340A A Collection of Poems, viz.: I, Venus and Adonis. II, The Rape of Lucrece. III, The Passionate Pilgrim. IV, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick. ; Soar 8vo, fene copy in contemporary red morocco gilt, 'g.e. Ruled im red. London, Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Two Temple Gates in Fleetstreet (1700). £18 18s This was edited by Charles Gildon. Its four divisions as per title-page have separate titles dated respectively 1630, 1632, and 1599. 347 Works. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected. With Notes, Explanatory, and Critical. By Mr. Theobald. Portrait of Shakespeare and plates. 8 vols., sm. 8vo, ovig. mottled calf, gilt backs. London, Printed for H. Lintott, 1740. £5 5s ONE OF TWENTY-FIVE COPIES ON LARGE PAPER. 348 Plays. With Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators. To which are added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Todsley’s Collection of Old Plays. (Isaac Reed). Extra Illustrated with 150 plates (chiefly portraits) by S. Harding, tS do LARGE PAPER Copy. 15 vols., thick 8vo, fzme copy in old crimson morocey, g.e. London, Printed for T. Longman, etc., 1703. £25 Presentation copy from George Steevens to Thomas Holt White, the brother of Gilbert White, the naturalist. A. Holt White, Thomas White’s son, has written on the fly-leaf of volume I. :—‘‘ This was a presentation copy from Mr. Steevens to my Father.’’ A small slip pasted on bears the following in Thomas Holt White's autograph :—‘‘ N.B. My copy has illustrative Plates chiefly picked by Mr. Steevens. T.H.W.”’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31811528_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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