M. William Shak-speare: his true chronicle historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three daughters. : With the vnfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam: as it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S. Stephans night in Christmas hollidayes. By his Maiesties seruants playing vsually at the Gloabe on the Bancke-side.
1608
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M. William Shak-speare: his true chronicle historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three daughters. : With the vnfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam: as it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S. Stephans night in Christmas hollidayes. By his Maiesties seruants playing vsually at the Gloabe on the Bancke-side.
Uniform title
King Lear
Created/published
London : Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere St. Austins Gate, 1608.
Description
[84] p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. author.
Okes, Nicholas, printer.
Butter, Nathaniel, -1664, bookseller.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935, former owner.
Okes, Nicholas, printer.
Butter, Nathaniel, -1664, bookseller.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935, former owner.
Note
Mostly in verse.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: [A]² B-L⁴.
The first leaf is blank.
Running title reads: The historie of King Lear.
Entered to Butter and J. Busby 26 November 1607.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: [A]² B-L⁴.
The first leaf is blank.
Running title reads: The historie of King Lear.
Entered to Butter and J. Busby 26 November 1607.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 100)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2008. History in the Making.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2008. History in the Making.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 22292
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, I, 265 (a)
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S111085
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, I, 265 (a)
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S111085
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Cover-to-cover images of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22292 copy 1
Cover-to-cover images of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22292 copy 2
Cover-to-cover images of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22292 copy 2
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 22292 copy 1
Folger-specific note
ac4836. Imperfect: wanting the title leaf, which is supplied in facsimile; also wanting the blank leaf. Leaf B3 is damaged and repaired, with loss of catchword. Cropped, affecting headlines and side-notes. Provenance: collated at Quaritch by E. Talbot
Call number
STC 22292 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: a fragment, with the following wanting: gatherings [A] and B, and L3,4; a facsimile t.p. is tipped on front free endpaper. Folger card catalogue: There are variants [in the Folger copies of this title] in gatherings C, F, and K; see Folger worksheet file. Manuscript editorial and bibliographical notes in the hand of Halliwell-Phillips and earlier owner(s)(?). Many of the existing leaves are damaged and repaired, affecting headlines, text, side-notes and direction-lines. Green goatskin binding, signed by Tuckett; stored in a dark green goatskin pull-off box. Provenance: inscribed on D3v: "John Earle"; James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps copy; Marsden J. Perry copy (Folger file)