M. VVilliam Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters : with the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam : as it was plaid before the Kings Majesty at White-hall, vppon S. Stephens night, in Christmas hollidaies, by his Maiesties seruants, playing vsually at the Globe on the banck-side
Alternate Title:
True chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear and his three daughters; History of King Lear; Mr. William Shakespeare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters
Name:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Date:
1619
Language:
English
Provenance:
Furness, Horace Howard (bookplate); Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)
Publisher:
Printed for Nathaniel Butter [by William Jaggard]
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
books
Physical Description:
88 unnumbered pages; 18 cm (4to)
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
False imprint: printed by William Jaggard for the Shakesperian collection in 1619. Cf. Greg III, p. 1107-1109.; Signatures: A-L⁴ (leaf F2 signed F1).; Printer's device (McK. no. 283) on t.p.; Woodcuts: device, initial, and head-piece.; Imperfect: small portion of t.p. torn off at upper margin with loss of "Shake" in "Shake-speare"; t.p. mounted on new leaf.; Some ms. notes and corrections in red pencil.; Photocopy available for public use.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, PR2750 .A19 1619
Collection:
STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania); English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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