Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies faithfully reproduced in facsimile from the edition of 1632
Series: Three centuries of drama
Publisher: Methuen & co.
Published: 1953
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 419
Notes: Original t.-p. (with Droeshout's portrait of Shakespeare): Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression. London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard. 1632. [Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632]

The dedication and the preface of the first folio are retained.

The Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies are separately paged, with many errors, omissions and repetitions, as in the first folio.

Collation, errors in paging and signatures agree with those of the edition of 1632 in Library of Congress except that the order of the 5th and 6th prelim. leaves is reversed, and p. 261 of the comedies, and pages 49 and 164 of the histories are correctly numbered.

Micro-opaque of original in Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum, Columbia University. New York, Readex Microprint,  1953-56. 11 cards. 22.6 x 14.8 cm. (Three centuries of drama: 1516-1641) (Three centuries of English and American plays 1500-1800).