M^r. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
according to the true Originall Coppies. The second Impression.
[Portrait.] _London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to
be sold at his shop at the signe of the blacke Beare in Pauls
Church-yard._ 1632. [Colophon] _Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for
Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and
Robert Allot,_ 1632.
F^o. (13-3/4 × 9-1/8). *. 2.
Engraved portrait as before. Collation: A^6 (A 3 misprinted A 2)
*^4; A-2B^6C^2a-y^{6}2a-3c^{6}3d^4, paged (irregularly and in three
parts, beginning respectively on A 1, a 1, and 2a 1, in the last of
which the numbering jumps from 168 to 269). Verses to the reader,
signed B. I., facing title. Epistle and address as before.
Commendatory verses, two copies unsigned not in previous edition,
copies signed L. Digges and I. M. List of principal actors. More
commendatory verses signed Ben. Ionson, I. M. S. (not in previous
edition), and Hugh Holland, Table of contents including 'Troilus
and Cressida'. The three parts have separate pagination and
signatures and 'Troilus and Cressida' begins those of the
tragedies. The misprint in the signatures of the preliminary matter
is accounted for by the fact of the compositor having reprinted
that in the first folio, irrespective of the fact that the
titlepage is here included in the quire. In the present copy
sufficient room has not been allowed for the imposition of the
portrait which consequently covers some of the printing of the
titlepage. In some copies one of the other stationers' names
replaces Allot's in the imprint. But beyond this there were two
distinct settings up of the titlepage. Thus the Grylls copy differs
from the present in reading 'M^{r.}' for 'M^r.', 'Copies' for
'Coppies', 'sold at the signe' for 'sold at his shop at the signe',
and 'Blacke' for 'blacke'. There are also two settings of sig. A 5
in the preliminary matter, one having an ornamental initial 'S' at
the beginning of the first copy of verses, the other a factotum.
Second edition.