The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke By William Shakespeare
Subtitle: As it hath beene diverse times acted by his Highnesse servants in the Cittie of London, as also in the two Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where
Published: 1603 [1858]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. [66]. Signatures: [A]² ( -A1) B-I⁴.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A lithographic facsimile of the Devonshire copy, produced in an edition of forty copies under John Payne Collier’s supervision.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Two copies in this collection. The present is in original morocco-backed boards, inscribed by Collier to Joseph Hunter, September 1858, with an account of the printing, to the Signet Library, and with the latter’s gilt super ex-libris on front cover. Signature of I.A. Shapiro on front flyleaf recto and note by him on front pastedown. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A second copy, retained by Arthur and Janet Freeman, is in original morocco-backed boards, and was inscribed by Collier to W.B.D.D. Turnbull, and later given by Turnbull to W.H. Logan.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See also A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, C8; W. Jaggard, Shakespeare bibliography: a dictionary of every known issue of the writings of the poet and of recorded opinion thereon in the English language. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1911, p. 312.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117276" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>