Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies

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Numerous errors in paging.First issue.Portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout on t.p.; verse by Ben Jonson on leaf opposite.Bound with Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies / published according to the true original copies. 3rd impression. And unto this impression is added seven plays, never before printed in folio, viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London prodigall. The history of Thomas Ld. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan widow. A York-Shire tragedy. The tragedy of Locrine. London : Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1664.P536Condition: Cover rubbed, scratched, watermarked and stained; spine cracked, rubbed and torn at edges, headcap and foot torn, missing piece; covers loose; pages foxed and cockled; box rubbed at edges, white spots on bottom edge, rubbed at clasp. Scanned. 9/02.Bound in contemporary brown calf blind stamped, in red morocco box lined with yellow suede cloth.Armorial bookplate of James Langham, bart., Cottesbrooke, Northhamptonshire; bookplates of: The Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry, Templeton Crocker, the Family of Henry Posner.5 8