Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies
Subtitle: Published according to the true originall copies
Contributors: Droeshout, Martin, 1601- engraver; Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630, editor; Condell, Henry, -1627, editor; Jack Harris Samuels Library
Edition: The 2nd impression.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1187:12.
Publisher: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot [, John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, and Richard Meighen], and are to be fold [sic] at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1632
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Other titles: Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies; Life and death of King Iohn; Life and death of King John; Prologue
Notes: Editors' dedication signed: Iohn Heminge. Henry Condell.

Mostly in verse.

With an engraved title page portrait of the author signed: Martin· Droeshout: sculpsit· London.

Colophon reads: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632.

"The life and death of King Iohn" and "The prologue" (to Troilus and Cressida) begin new pagination on a1r and 2a1r respectively.

The first of nine imprint variants of this edition; see "Studies in bibliography" V, p. 81-108.

STC (2nd ed.) 22274

Greg, III, p. 1113-5(*).

Gift; Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels.