SC #: 5014

Location: Bryn Mawr College

Shelfmark: f

Notes about issue: This edition exists in three distinct states: the first includes copies that were sold without Troilus and Cressida; the second contains Troilus and Cressida but without its prologue and with a redundant final page of Romeo and Juliet crossed out by the printer; the third includes a cancel leaf with the Prologue of Troilus on its recto and the first page of the play, reprinted from a new setting of type, on its verso. In none of the states is Troilus included in the "Catalogue" of plays.

Copy-specific notes: Imperfect: 3 preliminary leaves and last 6 leaves are lacking. Ben Jonson verses, title leaf, and last leaf supplied in facsimile.

Provenance: Fleming, John F. (1910–1987) ; Lilly, Joseph (1804-1870) ; Newberry Library ; Newton, Caroline (1893–1975) ; Probasco, Henry (1820–1902) ; Sotheby's

Provenance notes: Given by Caroline Newton (Bryn Mawr '14) in 1974 in honor of Katharine McBride (Bryn Mawr '25), President of the College. Inserted at rear is an invoice from John F. Fleming to Caroline Newton noting "Received Payment in Full - 2/23/66" with price $12,500.

Leaf Height: 30.9 cm

Leaf Width: 20.0 cm

Marginalia: "1-4" in pencil at bottom of each preliminary leaf. Ink writing on A2 of The Tempest, now illegible. Lines boxed in ink in Two Gentleman of Verona (pp . 23, 31); in Midsummer Night's Dream, line crossed out on p. 147: "Emptying our bosomes, of their counsell sweld"; text boxed in ink, since erased, in Midsummer Night's Dream (p 418); in As You Like It (p. 196), "droppes forth fruite" emended in ink to "droppes such fruite"; in Hamlet (p. 155), ink "3[?]" written in margin next to "Exit" before "Scena Tertia"; in Hamlet (p. 156), lines underlined in ink: "Contagious blastments ... / ... in feare;"

Rasmussen & West #: 177

Rasmussen & West notes: The Bryn Mawr copy of the Folio, in the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, is one of the few copies acquired and donated to a public or private library by a woman. Caroline Newton, a psychoanalyst, had a remarkable life. She studied under Freud in Vienna, translated Goethe’s Sorrow’s of Young Werther, and was a close enough friend and supporter of Thomas Mann to offer her Jamestown, Rhode Island house as a refuge to the Nobel Prize-winning novelist after he and his family fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s.

Binding: The volume is stored in a red cloth clamshell box. The binding is red morocco with gold tooled double fillets in two places and gold tooled ornamentation in the corners. It was bound by Riviere. It has six raised bands along the spine with gold tooled and blind tooled ornamentation in the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh panels.

Binder: Riviere & Son

Bookplate: Caroline Newton; Newberry Library