![]() ![]() Comes with a ripped and torn, dust jacket. A very large and substantial hardback book, blue cloth with gilt title impressions on the spine. This is a unique and invaluable tool for any serious Shakespeare scholar. Professor Blayney's Introduction includes a table identifying the order the pages of each play were set, and the compositors believed to have set each page. The volume includes all of the line numbering established in the 1968 edition, as well as the traditional Globe act-scene-line numbers. Blayney reconsiders Professor Hinman's findings in the light of new Elizabethan scholarship. This edition reproduces pages from 29 of the most satisfactory copies, out of the 82 now in the Folger Shakespeare Library, originally selected by Prof. The uncorrected sheets were not thrown out, but were mixed in with the corrected ones,so no two First Folios, of which there are 240 in existence, are identical. As printing of the First Folios proceeded, proofs were read and corrections were made. ![]() ![]() 35 x 24 cm., First edition in this form, xxvii, blank, half title, blank, 928 pp., Title page in two colors, introduction, photographic facsimile of the best page in the Folger Library for each page, variant pages illustrated, Half red morocco and red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, top edges gilt, original red cloth box, fine. The slipcase is also in perfect condition. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The uncorrected sheets were not thrown out, but were mixed in with the corrected ones, with the result that no two First Folios, of which there are 240 in existence, are identical. As printing of the First Filios proceeded, proofs were read and corrections were made. This is a full-size, photographic facsimile of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, which was printed over a period of two years and released in 1623. Publisher's full red cloth, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands and gilt borders, gilt lettering in three compartments, gilt tooling in remainder. All US buyers should query the seller for Insured Media Mail rate quotation. Due to it's great weight and very high postal rates for international posting, this volume is sold only within the US domestic market. All flaws in this copy are minor and unobtrusive. The gilt decorated spine with 4 raised bands is bright and clean with only a mild fray to the very top of the spine probably from finger pulls. The only flaw is a steeply inclined double fold crease to the actual First Folio title page that affects the lower right corner only in the margin and is now flattened out and unobtrusive. No warping and the drips can only be seen when viewed at an oblique angle in bright light, so therefore not obtrusive. This is the deluxe First Edition (with publisher's original prospectus laid in) and in publisher's quarter red pebbled Morocco and red buckram over boards, in a red buckram matching slipcase which has several long drips to the rear slipcase board that reach to the bottom edge, creeping under the edge, leaving a dark stain for several inches. These improvements, the meticulous work of the great Folio scholar Charlton Hinman made possible by the extensive Folger Library Collection, established The Norton Facsimile as an indispensable volume for book collectors and serious readers of Shakespeare.Hardcover. Finally, it introduced a standard system of reference, "through line numbering," based on the lines printed in the 1623 edition rather than on the acts, scenes, and lines of a modern edition. Even more important, it offered the latest, most corrected state of pages known to vary from copy to copy because of correction at press. It was the first facsimile in which every page had been selected from a large number of copies in an attempt to find a clean, clear example with minimal show-through. When it was published in 1968, The Norton Facsimile set a new standard for scholarly accuracy. One of the essential books of English literature and culture, the justly famous First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, a full-size photographic facsimile that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world. ![]()
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