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London: J. Tonson, 1734. Full-Leather. Fine. 12mo. Frontispiece by P. Fourdrinier, 71pp.; bound to style in recent paneled leather, single gilt rule border, spine lettering gilt. A lovely copy. No separate edition of this play appeared until the 1734 publication of competing editions by Jacob Tonson and Robert Walker, who both also issued it in sets of Shakepeare's complete works. The Tonson edition offered here contains a piracy notice against Walker on page [3]. Jaggard, page 483.

Comedies, Histories & Tragedies is a collection of William Shakespeare's plays, published in the First Folio in 1623, seven years after his death. Compiled by his colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell, it is considered one of the most influential books ever published in the English language.