British Library Copy
Shelfmark: C.34.k.17
Copy notes: Signatures: B-L4. Wanting quire [A], titlepage supplied
in facsimile.
Provenance: Thomas Middleton, John Cooper, Richard from Mary; J.
O. Halliwell-Phillipps, sold 1858.
Binding: In a 19th-century English blind and gold tooled purple
goatskin binding with the title tooled in gold on the upper cover.
Author and date of publication are lettered in gold up the flat
spine. The edges of the boards and the turn-ins are gold tooled.
With marbled paper endleaves. MS. notes by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps
written and pasted on the verso of the front flyleaf. MS. notes
'Thomas Middleton, John Cooper, Richard from Mary. John Cooper,
1688, 1667' on L4v.
Shelfmark: C.34.k.18
Copy notes: Signatures: [A]2 (-[A]1, blank) B-L4. Cropped at foredge,
affecting marginal notes, cropped at foot, affecting signatures
and catchwords.
Provenance: Rev. C. W. Loscombe, sold 1854; J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
Binding: In a 19th-century English blind and gold tooled dark red
goatskin binding. Author and title are lettered in gold up the flat
spine. The edges of the boards are gold tooled, the turn-ins are
blind and gold tooled. The edges of the leaves are gilt. With plain
blue paper endleaves tooled in blind. A cutting from a bookseller's
catalogue is pasted on the verso of the front flyleaf. Binder's
ticket on the verso of the front flyleaf 'Bound by RILEY 54 Brunswick
Street, Black Friars Road'.
King Lear, Second Quarto, 1608 [1619]
M. William Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life
and death of King Lear, and his three daughters. With the vnfortunate
life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his
sullen and assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaied before
the Kings Maiesty at White-hall, vppon S. Stephens night, in Christmas
hollidaies. By his Maiesties seruants, playing vsually at the Globe
on the Banck-side.
[London]: Printed [by William Jaggard] for Nathaniel Butter, 1608
[i.e. 1619].
[88] p.; 4o
Signatures: A-L4
References: STC (2nd ed.) 22293; Greg, I, 265(b)
British Library Copy
Shelfmark: C.34.k.19
Copy notes: Signatures: A-L4.
Provenance: David Garrick, bequeathed 1779.
Binding: In a 19th-century English gold tooled red grained sheep
binding with the coat of arms of David Garrick tooled in gold in
the centre of both covers. Author, title and date of publication
are lettered in gold up the flat spine. The edges of the boards
and the turn-ins are gold tooled. The top edge is gilt. With comb
marbled paper endleaves. Bound by the British Museum Bindery.
Shelfmark: C.12.g.27
Copy notes: Signatures: A-L4.
Provenance: King George III, presented 1823.
Binding: In a 19th-century English gold tooled red half sheep binding,
the boards covered with comb marbled paper. The cypher of King George
III is tooled in gold on the flat spine. Author, title and date
of publication are lettered in gold up the spine. With comb marbled
paper endleaves. Bound by the British Museum Bindery.
Shelfmark: C.34.k.20
Copy notes: Signatures: A4 (-A1) B4 (-B1) C-L4. Titlepage supplied
in MS. Leaf A2 is slightly defective, affecting text.
Provenance: Provenance unknown, purchased probably between 1813
and 1827.
Binding: In a 19th-century English gold tooled red grained sheep
binding. Author, title, place and date of publication are lettered
in gold up the flat spine. The edges of the boards and the turn-ins
are gold tooled. The edges of the leaves are gilt. With comb marbled
paper endleaves. Bound by the British Museum Bindery.
