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)