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Bad quarto of Hamlet, 1603, also known as the firs...
Book, QuartoThis is the earliest surviving printed version of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. There are only two copies of this b...
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Death's Duel by John Donne
Book, Quarto, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis text shows John Donne (1572–1631) contemplating and rehearsing the circumstances of his own death. Deaths Duell i...
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First edition of John Donne's Poems, 1633
Book, Quarto, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis is the first edition of John Donne’s collected poems, printed in 1633, two years after he died. In his lifetime, ...
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First edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1609
Book, QuartoShake-Speares Sonnets Although nowadays we think of Shakespeare primarily as a playwright, in his own lifetime he was al...
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Friendship album of Gervasius Fabricius zu Kleshei...
Friendship album, Book, Quarto, Manuscript, Illustration, Image Created date: 1595–1637These are illustrations from the friendship album of the student Gervasius Fabricius zu Klesheim of Salzburg, and others...
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Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
Book, QuartoChristopher Marlowe’s fast-moving play The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, is a tale of violent conflict betwee...
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Niccholes’s Discourse of Marriage and Wiving
Book, QuartoThe Discourse of Marriage and Wiving (1620) offers man-to-man advice on ‘how to chuse a good wife from a bad’ and how to...
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Nice Wanton, a Tudor interlude
Quarto, BookNice Wanton is a work of drama from c. 1550 by an unknown author. Its genre is the ‘interlude’, a popular genre in Tudor...
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Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by Night by Ludwig L...
Book, QuartoLudwig Lavater was a Swiss Reformed theologian and prolific author. His book on demonology – De spectris, lemuribus et m...
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Quarto 1 of King Lear, 1608
Book, QuartoThis item is the first published version of Shakespeare’s King Lear, known as the first quarto or Q1. We can see from th...
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Quarto of Much Ado About Nothing, 1600
Book, QuartoMuch Ado About Nothing was first printed in 1600 in this small quarto edition, around two years after the play was writt...
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Second quarto of Hamlet, 1605
Book, QuartoThis is a copy of the ‘second quarto’, one of the three early modern printed editions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. What does...
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Seneca His Ten Tragedies, 1581
Book, QuartoSeneca (c. 4 BC–AD 65) was a Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright. His highly popular and widely influential bloo...
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The Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia by Philip Sidn...
Book, QuartoSir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English courtier and poet. Arcadia, dedicated to his sister, Mary Herbert, the Coun...
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The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, 1590
Book, QuartoThe Faerie Queene (1590) is an epic poem by Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), which follows the adventures of a number of m...
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