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Comedies, Histories and Tragedies (a.k.a. The First Folio, 1623)
by Shakespeare, William (supplementary essays by Arthur Freeman, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller, and Peter W. M. Blayney)
- New
- first
- Condition
- New/No Jacket (as issued)
- ISBN 10
- 1891788302
- ISBN 13
- 9781891788307
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount (Oakland: Octavo), 1623; 2001. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). New copy (in shrinkwrap) of a remarkable digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; not a printed book) of perhaps the finest surviving copy of the First Folio, from the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. This Octavo Edition contains detailed digital images (may be magnified at up to 200% of original size) of every page of the original edition (photographed as if the actual book were open before the viewer) as well as a complete searchable transcription of the text and scholarly essays by Arthur Freeman, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller, and Peter W. M. Blayney.
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- Philip Smith, Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8VSHCH05
- Title
- Comedies, Histories and Tragedies (a.k.a. The First Folio, 1623)
- Author
- Shakespeare, William (supplementary essays by Arthur Freeman, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller, and Peter W. M. Blayney)
- Format/Binding
- Other Binding
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 1891788302
- ISBN 13
- 9781891788307
- Publisher
- London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount (Oakland: Octavo)
- Date Published
- 1623; 2001
- Keywords
- William Shakespeare Folger Library 1891788302 First Folio Globe Theatre Theater English literature Renaissance Arthur Freeman Peter W. M. Blayney Elizabethan Comedies Histories Tragedies Queen Elizabeth Stephen Orgul Octavo Editions Digital 9781891788307
- Bookseller catalogs
- Octavo Editions;
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Philip Smith, Bookseller
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