Plate made for 1807 facsimile edition of the first First Folio. Some impressions are on paper specially made for the facsimile (wove paper, with a dated J. Whatman watermark saying "Shakespeare"; watermark dates of 1806 and 1807 are known). Other impressions are on antique paper, presumably intended to deceive.
Printed on antique laid paper of poor quality (e.g. several vatman's tears including one on sitter's cheek) with vertical chain lines. Postcard of Droeshout portrait (NPG 185) taped to frame verso removed to curatorial file. Removed from ca. 1950s frame. Photocopies kept in curatorial file. Given in memory of Katherine and Sebastian Gaeta by Lois Avery Gaeta and the Hon. Sebastian Gaeta, Jr.
Call number
ART Vol. c21
Folger-specific note
Printed on verso of title page removed from unknown copy of the play The gentleman dancing-master, by William Wycherley, London, 1673. Previously bound with ART Vol. c21, which contains a loosely laid in letter from Albert Jackson, boookseller, "When I purchased these two items from the news agents, they were with their respective books, Halliwell-Phillipps is responsible for having taken them out and binding separately."
Call number
ART Vol. c22
Folger-specific note
Printed on verso of title page removed from unknown copy of the play The conquest of Granada, by John Dryden, London, 1672. Letter from Albert Jackson, boookseller, loosely laid in, "When I purchased these two items from the news agents, they were with their respective books, Halliwell-Phillipps is responsible for having taken them out and binding separately" (i.e. binding the two together in this volume). Unsigned note on front pastedown, "The engraved portrait issued in 1673 has been removed from this volume and bound separate" (now ART Vol. c22)
