Book Auction Records, Volume 1, Part 2A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions. |
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Page 385 - Mr- William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio. viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas Ld- Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. London, Printed for PC 1664.
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Page 386 - London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Pauls ChurchYard, and in Russel-Street Covent-Garden.
Page 386 - Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. Unto which is added seven plays never before printed in folio, viz.:—Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
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Page 386 - London. Printed for H. Herringman and are to be sold by Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders at the Anchor, in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange.
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| Title | Book Auction Records, Volume 1, Part 2 |
| Editor | Frank Karslake |
| Publisher | Wm. Dawson, 1904 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jun 2007 |
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