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• Author/Creator:Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
  
• Uniform Title:[Plays. First Folio]
  
• Title:Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies.
  
• Published/Created:London, Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623.
  
• Physical Description:9 p.l., 303, 100 (i.e. 98), [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [25] 98, [1], 109-156, 257-993 (i.e. 399) p. 32 cm.
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: 1978 +83
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of curator.
    

  • Location:Elizabethan Club
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  • Call Number: Eliz +28
    
  • Status:No information available 

   
• Local Notes:BEIN 1978 +83: West 58. Copy as described by A. W. Pollard's Shakespeare folios and quartos. London, 1909, except that signature V is correctly printed, and the order of the preliminary leaves is: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 5, 8.
  BEIN 1978 +83: Imperfect: Verses by Ben Jonson inlaid and partially in facsimile, t.-p. in facsimile with portrait from another edition (?), preliminary leaves and final leaf inlaid. Bookplate of John Hall.
  BEIN Eliz +28: West 232. Purchased about 1790 by Henry Constantine Jennings from bookseller Thomas Payne; acquired about 1820 by George Hibbert, at whose sale it was purchased by John Wilks, M.P.; purchased at Wilks sale by John Dunn Gardner; purchased at Gardner Sale by Henry Huth; acquired before Huth sale by Alexander S. Cochran.
  
• Notes:Colophon: Printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
  Signatures: A⁶+¹ [B]² A-Bb⁶ Cc² a-g⁶ gg⁸ h-v⁶ x⁴ [*]² [par.]-2[par.]⁶ 3[par.]¹ aa-ff⁶ gg² Gg⁶ hh⁶ kk-bbb⁶.
  
• Access and use:CtY-BR BEIN 1978 +83: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use.
• Variant and related titles:Comedies, histories, & tragedies.
  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, histories, and tragedies.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 22273
  Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, vol. 3, p. 1109-1113
  West, A.J. Shakespeare first folio, 58
  West, A.J. Shakespeare first folio, 232
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hall, John--Bookplate.
  Jennings, Henry Constantine, 1731-1819--Ownership.
  Hibbert, George, 1757-1837--Ownership.
  Wilks, John, 1765?-1854--Ownership.
  Gardner, John Dunn--Ownership.
  Huth, Henry, 1815-1878--Bookplate.
  Cochran, Alexander Smith, 1874-1929--Ownership.