Excerpt from Shakespeare's Life and Work: Being an Abridgment, Chiefly for the Use of Students, of a Life of William Shakespeare

Editions of the poems in the poet's lifetime 163 Posthumous editions of the poems 163 The 'poems' of 1640 163 Quartos of the plays in the poet's lifetime Posthumous quartos of the plays 1623 The First Folio The pubhshing syndi cate 166 The prefatory matter 167 The value of the text 169 The order of the plays 169 The typography 169 Unique copies 170 The Sheldon copy 170 Jaggard's presentation copy of the First Folio Estimated number of extant copies Reprints of the First Folio 1632 The Second Folio 1663 - 4 The Third Folio 1685 The Fourth Folio Eighteenth-century ed itors Nicholas Rowe (1674 1718)

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