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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. [12], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243-272, [2]; 328; 303 pages, with the frontispiece portrait, title, and next leaf supplied in conspicuous facsimile. Folio, 341x226 mm, old 1/2 calf, worn, rebacked retaining original backstrip, cover corners restored. London: H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685
The Fourth Folio. Bartlett 123; Pforzheimer 910; Wing S2915-17. Rough copy overall: contents soiled with intermittent marginal foxing, numerous ink blots, smudges, and stains, A2.3 rehinged and remargined with text loss on A3, scattered crude marginal repairs causing mostly minor text loss on F4, G2, I2, 2F2, 2F6, 2I4, 2K5, 2R4, and 3D4, small hole in I1 with loss of a few letters, paper flaw in K2 affecting a few words on recto, rust hole in O4 through one word on verso, lower portion of 2N1 torn out and restored with substantial text loss, 4C1 rehinged and remargined with text loss in lower outer corner, last leaf trimmed and mounted.
