Research Catalog

Title

Shakspere's Merchant of Venice

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Publication

London, C. Praetorius, 1887.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
• Praetorius, Charles.

Description

xiv, [2] p., facsim.: 75, [1] p.; 22.5 cm.

Series Statement

Shakspere-quarto facsimiles, no. 16

Alternative Title

Merchant of Venice.

Note

• Now known as the first quarto.
• The last page is a duplicate of p. 54, sig. G4 of the British museum copy, C. 12, g. 32. cf. Forewords.
• With facsimile of original t.-p.: The most excellent / Historie of the Merchant / of venice. / VVith extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Iewe / ... As it hath been diuers times acted by the Lord / Chamberlaine his Seruants. / Written by William Shakespeare. / [Ornament] At London, / Printed by I.R. for Thomas Heyes, / and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the / signe of the Greene Dragon. / 1600.
• Caption and running title: The comicall History of the Merchant of Venice.
• With "Troilus and Cressida. Additional markings for ... facsimile of the Qo. 1609," [2] p. following p. xiv.

Call Number

*KC 1600 (Shakespeare, W. Shakspere's Merchant of Venice)

LCCN

01013255

OCLC

2124617

Author

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Title

Shakspere's Merchant of Venice:

Imprint

London, C. Praetorius, 1887.

Edition

the second (and better) quarto, 1600, a facsimile in foto-lithography (from the Duke of Devonshire's copy) by Charles Praetorius. With forewords by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

Series

Shakspere-quarto facsimiles, no. 16

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Added Author

Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.

Praetorius, Charles.

Added Title

Merchant of Venice.

Research Call Number

*KC 1600 (Shakespeare, W. Shakspere's Merchant of Venice)