SC #: 1368

Location: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zurich Central Library)

Shelfmark: RaP 123

Provenance: Hess, Johann Rudolph (1588–1655); Usteri, Johann Martin (1763–1827)

Provenance notes: Part of a group of nine quartos in the Zurich library, which formed a sammelband when they were acquired by the library in the early nineteenth century, including six plays and a prose novelization of a play, all published between 1607 and 1613, with neighboring shelfmarks and similar bindings, suggesting they entered the library at the same time: Ben Jonson, Volpone (1607); How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad (1608); Painful Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre (1608); Romeo and Juliet (1609); Hamlet (1611); Troublesome Reign of King John (1611); Pericles (1611); John Marston, Insatiate Countess (1613, with author attribution cut out); Robin Stafford, A Geographicall and Anthologicall description of all the Empires and Kingdomes (1607); George Hakewill, The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Practise of Confirmation (1613). [LE]

Leaf Height: 18.4 cm

Leaf Width: 13.0 cm

Binding: Grey cardboard; stamp on front cover: "STADT-BIBLIOTHEK ZURICH"; the number "22" on spine

For scholarship on this copy, see: Lukas Erne, "The Two Gentlemen of Zurich: Marcus Stapfer and Johann Rudolph Hess, Swiss Travellers to England (1611-13), and Their Shakespeare Quartos," The Library 24.1 (2023): 51-67.

Bartlett 1939 #: 1125

Bartlett 1939 notes: ZURICH STADTBIBLIOTHEK, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.