SC #: 706

Location: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Shelfmark: SR 50.21

Notes about issue: "A reissue of the 1637 edition printed by Marmaduke Parsons, with cancel title page." [ESTC]; This issue contains a cancel title leaf dated 1652, and adds an advertisement for books "Printed and solde by William Leake" [A1v]. [DEEP]

Copy-specific notes: T.p. mutilated and repaired at outer edge, affecting end of 2nd and 5th lines on recto and text on verso; several leaves mutilated and repaired at outer edge, occasionally affecting text; 81000065

Provenance: Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard (1820-1889)

Provenance notes: the Halliwell copy (Sotheby, July, 1889, no. 905); presented by C. E. Flower; deposited by the RSC

Binding: Brown morocco

Bartlett 1939 #: 685

Bartlett 1939 notes: SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY.6 7/8 x 4¾". Title, A2, A3 mended in outer margin injuring a few words; A4, H2-I4 extended on outer margin; B1-C4, G1, G4 mended on outer margin; E1 mended in lower margin. Halliwell's note: "One of the rarest, if not the rarest, of the later Shakespeare quartos, but I have had the good luck, since this was bound to buy a nicer copy from Mr. Jarvis." The Halliwell (July 1, 1889, n. 905, £9. 9s.) copy. Bound in brown levant morocco, by Bedford for Mr. Halliwell.

Bartlett 1916 #: 479

Bartlett 1916 notes: SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY. 6 7/8 x 4¾". Title, A2, A3, mended in outer margin injuring a few words; A4, H2-l4 extended on outer margin; Bi-C4, Gi, G4 mended on outer margin; Ei mended in lower margin. Halliwell's note: "One of the rarest, if not the rarest, of the later Shakespeare quartos, but I have had the good luck, since this was bound to buy a nicer copy from Mr. Jarvis". The [Halliwell] Sotheby (July, 1889, No. 905) copy. Bound in brown levant morocco, by Bedford for Halliwell.