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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) The Late, and much admired ...

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 223

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) The Late, and much admired ...

Schätzpreis
3.000 £ - 5.000 £
ca. 5.958 $ - 9.930 $
Zuschlagspreis:
10.200 £
ca. 20.258 $
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre . [London: William Jaggard] for T[homas] P[avier], 1619.
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre . [London: William Jaggard] for T[homas] P[avier], 1619. 4° (172 x 126mm). R1 with woodcut headpiece and opening initial. (Title supplied in facsimile, S4v soiled, small spot affecting quire T, some soiling and spotting to final leaf Bb.) Red morocco gilt by Leighton, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance : Dr. Trueman (purchased by the London bookseller James Tregaskis and sold to:) Sir Thomas Edward Watson of Newport (1851-1921, bookplate; two loosely inserted letters from Tregaskis to Watson, dated London 8 and 25 June 1906, one telling him: 'I am sending the quarto Pericles by registered post. You may have noticed that a copy not so tall as mine sold for £161 on the 26th last month'; the other supplying provenance). The fourth quarto, extracted from the third edition of The Whole Contention betweene the Two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke ... written by W. Shakespeare , an abridged and corrupt version of Henry VI, pt. 2 , with Pericles added as a third part. The play was first performed by Shakespeare's company, the King's Men, in 1607 or early 1608. It proved a great popular success, being 'divers and sundry times acted by his Majesty's Servants at the Globe on the Bankside' as the 1609 first quarto states. The subsequent quartos, a second published in 1609, then others in 1611, 1619, 1630, 1635, 1664 and 1685 derive from the first with only minor modifications, as does the text printed in the second issue of the Third Folio in 1664, the first time that the play appeared in a folio edition. Drawn from versions of the fifth century Greek romance of Apollonius of Tyre by John Gower and Laurence Twine, Pericles has long been deemed a collaboration. Roger Warren, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition (2003), accepts that George Wilkins author of the prose narrative The Painful Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre (1608), wrote scenes 1-9, and Shakespeare scenes 11-22. Yet he also emphasises the important place of the work in a closely-linked group of plays -- Cymbeline , The Winter's Tale and The Tempest -- written at the end of Shakespeare's career. RARE. According to ABPC the earliest edition sold at auction since 1975 is an imperfect copy of the fifth quarto (1630). The copies of the third edition of The Whole Contention sold in 1987 (Clawson-Hogan) and 2001 (White-Berland) both lacked Pericles . Greg 284(d); STC 26101.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 223
Auktion:
Datum:
06.06.2007
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
6 June 2007, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre . [London: William Jaggard] for T[homas] P[avier], 1619.
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre . [London: William Jaggard] for T[homas] P[avier], 1619. 4° (172 x 126mm). R1 with woodcut headpiece and opening initial. (Title supplied in facsimile, S4v soiled, small spot affecting quire T, some soiling and spotting to final leaf Bb.) Red morocco gilt by Leighton, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance : Dr. Trueman (purchased by the London bookseller James Tregaskis and sold to:) Sir Thomas Edward Watson of Newport (1851-1921, bookplate; two loosely inserted letters from Tregaskis to Watson, dated London 8 and 25 June 1906, one telling him: 'I am sending the quarto Pericles by registered post. You may have noticed that a copy not so tall as mine sold for £161 on the 26th last month'; the other supplying provenance). The fourth quarto, extracted from the third edition of The Whole Contention betweene the Two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke ... written by W. Shakespeare , an abridged and corrupt version of Henry VI, pt. 2 , with Pericles added as a third part. The play was first performed by Shakespeare's company, the King's Men, in 1607 or early 1608. It proved a great popular success, being 'divers and sundry times acted by his Majesty's Servants at the Globe on the Bankside' as the 1609 first quarto states. The subsequent quartos, a second published in 1609, then others in 1611, 1619, 1630, 1635, 1664 and 1685 derive from the first with only minor modifications, as does the text printed in the second issue of the Third Folio in 1664, the first time that the play appeared in a folio edition. Drawn from versions of the fifth century Greek romance of Apollonius of Tyre by John Gower and Laurence Twine, Pericles has long been deemed a collaboration. Roger Warren, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition (2003), accepts that George Wilkins author of the prose narrative The Painful Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre (1608), wrote scenes 1-9, and Shakespeare scenes 11-22. Yet he also emphasises the important place of the work in a closely-linked group of plays -- Cymbeline , The Winter's Tale and The Tempest -- written at the end of Shakespeare's career. RARE. According to ABPC the earliest edition sold at auction since 1975 is an imperfect copy of the fifth quarto (1630). The copies of the third edition of The Whole Contention sold in 1987 (Clawson-Hogan) and 2001 (White-Berland) both lacked Pericles . Greg 284(d); STC 26101.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 223
Auktion:
Datum:
06.06.2007
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
6 June 2007, London, King Street
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