SC #: 29

Location: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

Shelfmark: 69304

Copy-specific notes: Last leaf wanting, supplied in facsimile from British Library copy; inlaid; trimmed at head.

Provenance: Bunbury, Henry (1778-1860) ; Bunbury, William (c. 1710-1764) ; Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke (1833–1908) ; Devonshire, Victor C. W. Cavendish, 9th Duke (1868-1938) ; Devonshire, William Cavendish, 7th Duke (1808–1891) ; Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke (1790–1858) ; Huntington, Henry E. (1850-1927) ; Payne & Foss

Provenance notes: Dibdin's link of the volume to Sir Thomas Hanmer is disputed by Freeman and Freeman.

Marginalia: On title page, possible deletion of "Oxford"; on B3r, "impudent / And bed-red" altered to "impotent / And bed-red" and "Yong good Cornelia" altered to "Yong good Cornelio"; on D1r, "Mar." deleted and "Ham:" added before the line, "Ill, lo, lo, so, ho, so, come boy, come"; on D4r, faded deletion of "right" in "Scorned by the right rich, the rich curssed of the poor"; on E1v, "at my becke" has been changed to "at my backe"; on E1r, in early hand, next to "Honesty, from what she was into a bawd", is written: "sooner"; on E1v, "As" in left margin next to "It had been better my mother had ne're borne me"; on F4r, "Epitithe" possibly altered to "Epitiphe"; on F4v, "Hor." changed to "Ham:" before the line, "I Horatio, i'le take the Ghosts word".

Binding: Blue morocco

Binder: Macdonald

For scholarship on this copy, see: Arthur and Janet Freeman, "Did Halliwell Steal and Mutilate the First Quarto of Hamlet?", The Library (Dec. 2001): 349–63; Zachary Lesser, Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Bartlett 1939 #: 2

Bartlett 1939 notes: HUNTINGTON. 6 5/8 x 4 15/16". I4 lacking; some head-lines cropped. Found by Sir H. E. Bunbury at Barton, 1823, in volume containing other quartos; probably belonged to his grandfather, Sir William Bunbury. The Bunbury (exchanged, 1823), Payne & Foss (sold, 1823), Devonshire (sold, January, 1914) copy. Bound separately in blue morocco, by Macdonald, April, 1920 for Mr. Huntington.

Bartlett 1916 #: 2

Bartlett 1916 notes: HUNTINGTON. 6 5/8 x 4 15/16". I4 lacking; some headlines cropped. Found by Sir H. E. Bunbury at Barton, 1823, in volume containing other quartos; probably belonged to his grandfather. Sir William Bunbury. The Bunbury (exchanged, 1823), Payne & Foss (sold, 1823), Devonshire (sold, January, 1914) copy. Inlaid and bound with Henry IV, 1600, and other plays in Vol. 542 of the Devonshire Collection.