Copy Details for Hamlet (1676)

SC #: 107.5

Location: Cardiff University

Shelfmark: PR2807.A1 1676

Notes about issue: Most bibliographies consider Wing S2951 to be a variant issue of this edition (and date Wing S2951 to 1676 as well), 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 four lines." [ESTC]

Copy-specific notes: Imperfect copy; wanting title page and pages 1-6. Title, imprint and edition details taken from ESTC.

Provenance: Cardiff Public Libraries

Provenance notes: From the Cardiff Rare Books Collection. Stamp of the Cardiff Public Libraries on various pages.

Leaf Height: 21.2 cm

Leaf Width: 15.7 cm

Marginalia: No marginalia present.

Binding: Edges of bookblock sprinkled red; sewn on three flat tapes; without endbands; with 20th century laid paper endleaves; in a case binding of full vellum/parchment covers over boards; lettered in black ink on spine.