SC #: 5209

Location: University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center

Shelfmark: PR 2751.A1

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: An older facsimile -- possibly the first digital facsimile of a First Folio -- is available at https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p36d5pj3s

Provenance: Corser, Thomas (1793-1876); Furness, Horace Howard (1833-1912); Furness, Horace Howard, Jr (1865-1930); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (1868-1929); Smith booksellers (19th c)

Leaf Height: 32.0 cm

Leaf Width: 20.2 cm

Marginalia: B3v (The Tempest) has MS pencil: "'*Events, Why, Isle Mr. [Gur]nville’s copy, Mr. [Cracher]ode’s, and in that in the King’s Library in the British Museum."

Binding: The volume is enclosed in a red clamshell box. The binding is red morocco by Bedford with gold-tooled ornamentation in the center of the frame with diamond shaped ornamentation extending from corners of frame. The outer edge is framed with triple lines inside dotted lines. There are six ribs on the spine with ornamentation in each panel except the second.

Binder: Bedford, Francis

Rasmussen & West #: 180

Rasmussen & West notes: This volume was owned by New Variorum editors Horace Howard Furness, Sr. (1833-1912) and then by his son Horace Howard Furness, Jr. (1865-1930). Furness, Sr. began the project, Furness, Jr. joined him part way through, and the younger Furness ultimately finished the project after his father’s death.