Shakespeare's First Folio
Book
1623 (published)
1623 (published)
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The first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, this book was published seven years after his death. Without this precious edition, 18 of his plays would be entirely unknown.
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| Title | Shakespeare's First Folio (generic title) |
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| Brief description | Book, Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies / [edited by I. Heminge and H. Condell]. Publisher: London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623. |
| Physical description | Book, Shakespeare's first folio, letterpress, ink on paper, printed by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, London, 1623 First folio ed.; first issue. Includes portrait of William Shakespeare. The title page and lines "To the reader," remounted ; the vol. cut down and mended in several places. Portrait by Droeshout on title and verses "To the reader" signed B.I. [Ben Jonson] facing title. Colophon: Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623. |
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| Gallery label | Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio)
1623
Without the First Folio we would lack nearly half Shakespeare's plays. Edited seven years after his death by John Heminges and Henry Condell, members of his company, it represents a rare honour as few contemporary dramatists had their collected works published. The book contains 36 plays (omitting Pericles), 18 of them previously unprinted.
Engraving and letterpress
Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, London |
| Object history | Donated by Rev. Alexander Dyce, in 1869. |
| Summary | The first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, this book was published seven years after his death. Without this precious edition, 18 of his plays would be entirely unknown. |
| Bibliographic reference | Rasmussen, E., West, J. and Bailey, D.L, The Shakespeare first folios: a descriptive catalogue, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
no. 24. |
| Other number | Dyce 25.F.63 - NAL Pressmark |
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| Library number | Dyce 8936 |
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| Record created | June 16, 2017 |
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