SC #: 458

Location: Library of Birmingham

Shelfmark: S329.168

Notes about issue: This edition displays the typographical peculiarities that Bartlett ascribes to the third of the 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 there is a colon after "Caesar" in line 1 of title. In this edition, p. 15 is usually--but, as noted on specific copies, not always--misnumbered 51. As in the second undated quarto, larger type was used to set C1v-C2r (pp. 18-19) and D2v-D2r (pp. 28-29). For a full discussion of the undated editions of Julius Caesar, see Emma Depledge, forthcoming work.

Copy-specific notes: 26655

Provenance: Harrison, William (d. 1879)

Provenance notes: Label of Birmingham Free Libraries on front pastedown, embossed seal on title page and H gathering, stamp on E1r

Marginalia: Below imprint: "c. 1680" in pen;

Binding: Red morocco with fillet borders and gold fleur-de-lis

Bartlett 1939 #: 476

Bartlett 1939 notes: BIRMINGHAM. 8½ x 6 1/8". A few head-lines cut into. Probably the Harrison of Samlesbury (January 25, 1881, n. 923) copy. Purchased, 1881. Bound in red morocco.

Bartlett 1916 #: 287

Bartlett 1916 notes: BIRMINGHAM. 8½ x 6 1/8". A few headlines cut into. Purchased, 1881. Bound in red morocco.