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Folio, edged gilt in early 19th century russia; rebacked with original spine laid down; the portrait is in modern facsimile, the title page in 18th century type facsimile; part of dedication leaf and final leaf torn, but rest untouched

Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen and Robert Allot, 1632.

This facsimile is an ideal copy in which each page represents the best page selected from one of the 29 most satisfactory copies of the 80 copies in the Folger Shakespeare Library

Collotype reprint of the so-called Devonshire copy, which has title: The tragicall historie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect…

Collotype reproduction

"The second, in this Twenty-second Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... typographic plans ... [of] John Austen... The composition, the printing and the binding were done under the supervision of Charles Batey ... The type is…

"The text of the present edition... follows in every case the first editions with such alterations only as are held to be corrections of printers' errors ... The decorations have been designed and engraved on wood by Hilda Quick, those in The…

"Printed at the Ashendene press, at Shelley House, Chelsea,in the county of Middlesex, by C.H. St J. Hornby assisted by I. Jenkins, compositor, and G. Faulkner, pressman ... The text ... is, with some few very minor alterations, that edited for the…

The text of Books I to VI is that of the edition of 1596; the fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. The letter to Sir Walter Raleigh and the prefatory verses are from the edition of 1590