The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark
Subtitle: as it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants
By: by William Shakespeare
Contributors: Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710; Wellington, Richard, -1715, bookseller; Rumball, Edmund, -1702 or 1703, bookseller; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Printed for Rich. Wellington, at the Dolphin and Crown in Paul's Church-Yard, and E. Rumball in Covent-Garden
Published: 1703
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Other titles: Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Hamlet
Notes: Thomas Betterton's stage version (Folger Shakespeare card catalog).

There are at least three different settings of type for this title. In this edition, the following signature marks are directly beneath the identified characters (a space is represented by $): B2 tion; C2 t$bo; H1 th; L2 cold. In this edition, "London" in the imprint is followed by a colon, rather than a full-stop; p. 1 is numbered; p. 1, line 15, has ".. twelve: get .."; the last line on p. 1 ends "Barnardo".

Signatures: [A]℗ø B-Ĺþ M℗ø

"To the reader: this play being too long to be conveniently acted, such places as might be least prejudicial to the plot or sense, are left out upon the stage, but that we may no way wrong the incomparable author, are here inserted according to the original copy with this mark."--Leaf [A]2

With a cast list.

Bookseller's advertisements at bottom of title page, as well as for R. Wellington on final leaf (M2).

ESTC T51530

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Shakespeare, p. 19, no. 230

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy filed under shelf no. G.4012.18 halfbound in brown calfskin and marbled papers. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shelved under call no. G.4010.7 no. 2 is the second of two titles bound together in a volume labeled,  "Shakespeare -- Macbeth -- Hamlet." This volume contains [1]: Macbeth, a tragedy / [D'Avenant, 1674] -- [2]: The tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark [1703]. A slip with a bibliographic note in the hand of Thomas