Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio)

CORRECTION to the census note: there is no Methuen 1902 facsimile. The 1902 facsimile is Sidney Lee's collotype reproduction of the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902; Senate House Library's facsimile bibliography records no Methuen facsimile at all. The documented facsimile sequence a donor realistically holds: Francis Douce (London, 1807); Lionel Booth's type reprint (London, 1864); Howard Staunton's photolithographic facsimile (London, 1866); J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps's reduced facsimile (London, 1876, reprinted 1906 — the census note's date is correct); Lee (Clarendon Press, 1902); the Norton Facsimile edited by Charlton Hinman (1968 — the census note's date is correct), which reproduces no single copy but is a composite assembled from about thirty Folger copies, selecting the cleanest and most corrected state of each page; and the Hinman/Blayney Norton second edition (New York, 1996). Also expect disbound single leaves, Second/Third/Fourth Folio fragments, and 20th-century reduced photographic reprints. Any 1623-dated folio should be referred to an ABAA/ILAB specialist or the Folger Shakespeare Library before being described as a First Folio.