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Lot 196
SHAKESPEAR[E], WILLIAM Othello, the Moor of Venice. A Tragedy, as it hath been divers times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers: And now at the Theater Royal, by his Majesties servants.
London: printed for W. Weak, and to be sold by Richard Bentley and M. Magnes in Russel Street near Covent-Garden, 1681. The fourth quarto edition. 19th century three-quarters red morocco, marbled sides, all edges sprinkled red; 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (21.5 x 16.5 cm); [iv], 76 pp.; collating [pi]^(2) B-K^(4) L^(2), but this copy lacking G1, pp. 41-2, present here in facsimile only. Binding rubbed, the text with scattered foxing and toning, lacking a leaf as noted. Bookplates of Albert B. Ashforth Jr. and of Mary and Norman Hickman.
The recto of the second leaf is a catalogue of the plays and novels offered by Bentl[e]y and Magnes, which include Shakespeare's King Lear and Marlowe's Tamberlain the Great. The stated publisher W. Weak is presumed by Pforzheimer to be a misprint for W. Leake, who owned the copyright, and who died the year of this publication. Printed four years before the final folio edition, this is a rare and (even lacking a leaf) desirable work. Pforzheimer 893; ESTC R17174; Arber IV, 452; Bartlett 106; Jaggard p. 422.
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