Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. A Comedy of Errors. Engraved frontispiece (shaved in blank outer margin at top). 60 pages. 12mo, modern marbled boards with morocco lettering piece; underscoring and marginalia on a few pages. London: Jacob Tonson, 1734

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first separate edition, also issued as part of Tonson''s set of Shakespeare''s complete works. On page [3] is a piracy notice against the printer Robert Walker, who issued competing editions of Shakespeare plays. Jaggard, page 294.