SC #: 449

Location: Cardiff University

Shelfmark: PR2808.A1 1695

Notes about issue: This edition displays the typographical peculiarities that Bartlett ascribes to the second of the four undated quartos. (The fourth of these dates to around 1715 and is therefore not part of the Shakespeare Census; it can be distinguished from the other three by the fact that it collates A-G4 H2, instead of A-H4 like all the others, and by presence of a three-line note about the location of the scene beneath the Dramatis Personae, beginning: "SCENE, for the Three first Acts ..."). This edition can be distinguished from the others by the fact that pp. 46-47 are misnumbered 47-46. As in the third undated quarto, larger type was used to set C1v-C2r (pp. 18-19) and D2v-D3r (pp. 28-29). For a full discussion of the undated editions of Julius Caesar, see Emma Depledge, forthcoming work.

Provenance: Cardiff Public Libraries

Provenance notes: From the Cardiff Rare Books Collection. Stamp of the Cardiff Public Libraries on verso of title page, front free endpaper and page 64.

Leaf Height: 21.3 cm

Leaf Width: 15.5 cm

Marginalia: In pencil on front free endpaper verso: "Bartletts 1939 4th ed. 466. The [crossed out: third edition] in 4to rare £30".

Binding: Sewn on five raised supports; with endleaves of marbled paper and plain white laid paper; edges of bookblock gilt; with sewn endbands in red and white thread; five pairs of sewing slips laced into paper boards; in full covers of dark blue tanned goatskin, tooled in gold on turn-ins, board edges, boards, and spine. "Bound by Riviere & Son" stamped in gold inside front cover.

Binder: Riviere & Son

Bartlett 1939 #: 466

Bartlett 1939 notes: CARDIFF. 8 3/8 x 6 1/16 ". Purchased, 1923. Bound in blue levant morocco, by Riviere.