Copy Details for Hamlet (1676)

SC #: 115.5

Location: Meisei University, Kodama Memorial Library

Shelfmark: MR 0991

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: Printed areas of t.p. cut out in ten slips and pasted onto a separate leaf. Lacks E2-3, F3, M2-4

Leaf Height: 21.5 cm

Leaf Width: 16.8 cm

Marginalia: Added pencil note on t.p.: "First 24 after Restoration / Played by the Duke of York’s Company / under D’avenant in Lincoln Inn Fields / (1662)"

Binding: Bound in paper cover; some leaves loose.