Beschreibung:

Shakespeare, William. A COLLECTION OF LEAVES FROM THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION (1623) AND THE SECOND FOLIO EDITION (1632) OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: [Shakespeare, William.] [Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies. Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount (printed at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke and W. Aspley), 1623] ; [with:] [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies. The Second Impression. Thomas Cotes for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot 1632]; (i) a collection of 71 leaves from the first folio, together with 249 leaves from the second folio, containing the complete text of 24 of shakespeare's plays, in one volume, comprising, as bound: 18 leaves, V1-Y6, of the First Folio (last page of The Taming of the Shrew, All's Well, that Ends Well complete, first ten pages of Twelfth Night); 20 leaves, Z1-Cc2, of the second folio (last 11 pages of Twelfth Night, 1 p. blank, The Winters Tale complete); 12 leaves, a1-b6 of the First Folio (King John complete, Richard II, 2 pages); 18 leaves, c1-e6, of the second folio (last 21 pages of Richard II, first 15 pages of Henry IV Part One); 26 leaves, f-g6 gg8, h6, of the First Folio (last 11 pages of Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two complete, first 13 pages of Henry V); 211 leaves, k3- 3a6, of the second folio (remaining pages of Henry V, then Henry VI Part One, Henry VI Part Two, Henry VI Part Three, Richard III, Henry VIII, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra, all complete); 15 leaves, zz3-3b5, of the First Folio (all but the last 2 pages of Cymbeline); bound in one volume in nineteenth- or early twentieth-century brown morocco, decorated in blind and gilt, new endpapers, rebacked, numerous small repairs to tears and margins of some leaves (particularly at the beginning, sometimes slightly affecting text), some browning, oil-staining and soiling, margins cut close (occasionally just affecting borders) [together with:] (ii) three loose leaves, comprising cc1 from the First Folio (Coriolanus), ee4 from the second folio (also Coriolanus), and yy1 from the second folio (Othello), slightly torn and soiled (iii) 19 leaves in one volume from the Second Folio, comprising leaves A-C6 D1, two complete plays (The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona complete), modern quarter maroon morcoco, marbled boards, repairs, stained and browned