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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The second Impression. London: Printed by Tho[mas] Cotes, for Robert Allot 1632. Folio, 333 x 227mm. (13 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.), nineteenth-century olive diced russia, spine in 5 blind-tooled compartments, calf lettering-pieces, yellow green-sprinked edges, large restorations to covers and joints, upper joint broken, endpapers renewed, red morocco pull-off case, "To the Reader" verses on A1v torn and repaired, cut out and inlaid, and stained, lower margins heat-damaged and -browned, causing fraying and chipping to first 50 and last 70 leaves and occasionally elsewhere, the browning extending into text block of last 25 leaves, last 5 leaves severely damaged at bottom, large repair to fore-margin of A2, marginal repairs to last 3 leaves, an occasional small faint dampstain to upper margins, more pronounced at end, 2-inch tear to l1 . SECOND FOLIO EDITION, second issue (Todd's state II), with A2.5 (the title and "Effigies" page) reprinted, title with engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout (third state), woodcut initials and head-pieces. The unsigned "Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare" on A5r is John Milton's first published work. Greg III, 1113-1116; Pforzheimer 906; STC 22274e.5; William B. Todd, "The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton's Epitaph", Studies in Bibliography 5 (1953):81-108. Provenance : Trelissick Library, shelf-mark library on upper pastedown.