SC #: 460

Location: Cardiff University

Shelfmark: PR2808.A1 1695b Copy 2

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: In this copy p. 15 is correctly numbered. Lacks title leaf. Ink stains on many leaves. Large stain on D3v-E2v. Water damage to H gathering, which has nearly come out of the binding.

Provenance: Cardiff Public Libraries

Provenance notes: From the Cardiff Rare Books Collection, with stamp of the Cardiff Public Library,

Leaf Height: 21.8 cm

Leaf Width: 16.5 cm

Marginalia: Pencil annotations on front cover: "[Bartlett 1939.] Julius Caesar"; "479 (5th edn.)"; "1691 [deleted]"; "dif at end"; "supplying leaf H3 (that is defective and H4 that is wanted in 4790"; "ditto"; "about same[?];" "no title"; "Co[?] dated 1616". Pencil annotation on inner front cover: "PR 2808 A1 C. 84"; "1617387251"; "Bartlett 1939, Identical w 479 (5th edn.) Lacks t.p. but otherwise complete"; "4/4". On A2r, in pencil: "B. 1939 479 5th edn"; On A2v, in pencil: "3161.19". Ink scribblings throughout: "titti" on p.10. ; correction of "which" to "with" on p.28.

Binding: Disbound, with remnants of a tanned leather spine with raised sewing supports; housed in a late 19th or early 20th century cardboard wrapper.