SC #: 135

Location: National Library of Scotland

Shelfmark: [Al].2/1.1(9)

Notes about issue: Most bibliographies date this edition to 1676 and list it as a variant issue of Wing S2950 but see Emma Depledge, "False Dating: The Case of the '1676' Hamlet Quartos", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2018. "In this edition, the imprint is in five lines." [ESTC]

Copy-specific notes: In a volume of 16 plays: 1) Thomas Shadwell, The Royal Shepherdess (1669); 2) Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of The Country (1717); 3) Elkanah Settle, The Heir of Morocco (1682); 4. John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, The Duke of Guise (1699); 5) Settle, Distres’d Innocence: or, The Princess of Persia (1691); 6) Beaumont and Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush (1711); Beaumont and Fletcher, The Loyal Subject (1717); 8) The Prophetess (operatic adaption of Beaumont and Fletcher) (1690); 9) Hamlet (1676 [1683-4]; 10) John Dennis, A Plot, and no Plot by John Dennis [1697]; 11) Julius Caesar; 12) Thomas Shadwell, The Lancashire Witches, and Tegue O Divelly (1682); 13) Dryden, Tyrannick Love (1670); 14) Thomas Shadwell, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (1674); 15) Moliere, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, or, Squire Trelooby (1704); 16) William Davenant, The Mans the Master (1669).

Provenance notes: Acquired by the Advocates Library in the early 19th c. Ownership inscription "Ex Libris Bibliothecae Facultatis Juridicae Edinburgi" on recto of third fly leaf.

Binding: Volume rebound by National Library of Scotland