SC #: 5202

Location: University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library

Shelfmark: fPR2751.A1 1623 VAULT

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: "All preliminaries are facsimiles. πA1+1 has a facsimile of a state two portrait; it is remargined. πA3 is attached to a new inner margin; there is MS just below the text near the inner corner: 'FS by Harris'." (Rasmussen and West)

Provenance: Crocker, Ethel Willard (1861–1934) ; Crocker, William Henry (1861–1937) ; Harris, John (1791–1873)

Provenance notes: On front flyleaf: "160 guineas" and "600 guineas"

Leaf Height: 30.3 cm

Leaf Width: 19.0 cm

Rasmussen & West #: 46

Rasmussen & West notes: Little is known about this copy before it came into possession of Rev. Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, Shropshire .... In March 1899, the copy found its way to California after being purchased by Ethel Willard Crocker, wife of William H. Crocker..Where the First Folio resided over the next forty years is unclear, but in 1955, the Crocker family officially gifted it to the University of California, Berkeley.

Binding: The binding is dark red leather (not morocco) with moderate texturing. There is a double gold-tooled border on the front and back boards. The outer border is composed of a triple gold fillet with a triangle border on the outer edge. The inner border contains a vine, flower, and thistle flower pattern on the inside, then a triple gold fillet, then a fleur-de-lis border on the outer edge with a flower and thistle flower decoration at each outer corner.