Eliz 191: Bound in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges; initials of George Daniel on upper side of cover. On H₃v is written in a seventeenth-century hand, "Anagr. Elisabeth Rotton Her lot is to be neat." There are annotations for performance throughout in a seventeenth-century hand., Eliz 191: Signature of George Steevens on the title page, and a few notes by him in the text; this copy was possibly lot 1299 in the Steevens sale by King, 21 May 1800. Bookstamp of the Duke of Roxburghe on the title page; sold as lot 3860 in the Roxburghe sale by Evans, 6 June 1812. This copy was later owned by the Marquis of Blandford, and in his sale (White Knights library) by Evans, 30 June 1819, it was lot 3957., Eliz 191: This copy also appears, as an anonymous property, in a sale by Evans, 25-29 January 1830, lot 796. It was then owned by George Daniel, whose monogram is stamped on the cover; in his sale by Sotheby's, 26 July 1864, it was lot 1430. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., and The second edition (first, 1597). The text of this and later editions represents a different version of the play, fuller than that previously published in the first quarto of 1597.
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printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at his shop neare the Exchange
Eliz 192: Bound by F. Bedford in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The fourth edition (first, 1597), second issue.
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printed for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard, in Fleetestreete vnder the Dyall
Eliz 180: Bound by C. Murton in straight-grain brown goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. Manuscript note, probably by Henry Huth, on the front flyleaf. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by James Roberts. The first edition.
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printed by I.R. for THomas Heyes, and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Greene Dragon
Eliz 196: Bound by Lewis in green goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The third edition (first, 1594).
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printed for Eedward [sic] White, and are to be solde at his shoppe, nere the little north dore of Pauls, at the signe of the Gun
Eliz 174: Bound by F. Bedford in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. A few leaves remargined, but without loss of text. The James Orchard Halliwell copy, sold by Sotheby's, 21 May 1857, lot 872. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by Valentine Simmes. The first edition, second issue, in which leaves E₃,₄ have been canceled, and replaced by a complete sheet of four leaves, of which the first three are signed E₃, E₄, and E₅.
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printed by V.S. for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley
Eliz 178: Bound by F. Bedford in crimson goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by William White. The fourth edition (first, 1597).
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printed by W.W. for mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Foxe
Eliz 169: Bound in brown leather, blind and gold tooling on cover and spine. On the title page is written, in a seventeenth-century hand, "for Marc Stapfer.", This copy was owned by Bulkeley Bandinel, Bodley's Librarian, and it was sold with his library by Sotheby's, 16 August 1861, lot 264. The catalog noted the title page inscription and queried: "?in the hand of the poet!" The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., and The third edition (first, 1603).
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printed for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Saint Dunstons Church yeard in Fleetstreet. Vnder the Diall
Eliz 169: Bound by F. Bedford in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges.The Huth copy (with bookplate), acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911, prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by William Stansby. The fourth edition (first, 1603).
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printed by W.S. for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstons Churchyard in Fleetstreet: vnder the Diall
Eliz +33: A fragment only, consisting of four half sheets, uncut and unsewn, as issued, measuring 19.7 by 28.2 cm. Mounted in an album bound in red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine. Each leaf bears the British Museum duplicate stamp. Acquired by exchange with the British Museum for the Huth copy, which was complete, November 1911.
Eliz 168: Bound in straight-grain red goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. Signature of Jacobus Cummyng P.H. on B₁r. Bookplate of Plummer of Middlestead. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and Printed by James Roberts for Nicholas Ling. The second edition (first, 1603). This is the first authoritative edition of the play, the first quarto of 1603 being a shortened version of the text, different in many ways, and possibly a surreptitious publication.
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printed by I.R. for N.L. and are to be sold at his shoppe vnder Saint Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet