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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Julius Caesar. A Tragedy. As it is Now Acted at the Theatre Royal. London: Printed by H.H. Jun. for Hen. Heringman and R. Bentley and sold by Joseph Knight, 1684.
4o (214 x 156 mm). Collation: A1 B-H4 I2. (Some headlines cropped, a few stains.) Red morocco gilt, sides decorated with elaborate gilt all-over design, edges gilt, by H. Zucker of Philadelphia. Provenance: A. Edward Newton (bookplate, sold Parke-Bernet, part III, 29 October 1941, lot 193).
FIRST QUARTO AND FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. North's Plutarch, which had been published in 1579 and reprinted in 1595, provided the source for Julius Caesar which was probably written and first performed in 1599.
"It first appeared in the First Folio, 1623, and was not printed separately until 1684 when it appeared in quarto from and was followed by four undated editions before the dated edition of 1691. The reasonfor six editions in seven years must be sought in the great popularity which the play had on account of the excellent acting of Thomas Betterton [as Brutus in cast printed on title verso] and in the general interest in the great tragedies which brought out six editions of Hamlet and four of Othello between 1676 and 1709"--Henrietta C. Barlett, Mr. William Shakespeare.
This copy is without the comma after the word "acted" on the title-page as called for in Bartlett. Her updated Census records twenty-two copies, of which this may be the George L. Harrison-Huntington-Jones copy originally bound in brown levant, but later rebound by Zucker for Newton (see Newton sale description.) Arber II, 64; Bartlett 112; Wing S-2922.
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FIRST QUARTO AND FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. North's Plutarch, which had been published in 1579 and reprinted in 1595, provided the source for Julius Caesar which was probably written and first performed in 1599.
"It first appeared in the First Folio, 1623, and was not printed separately until 1684 when it appeared in quarto from and was followed by four undated editions before the dated edition of 1691. The reasonfor six editions in seven years must be sought in the great popularity which the play had on account of the excellent acting of Thomas Betterton [as Brutus in cast printed on title verso] and in the general interest in the great tragedies which brought out six editions of Hamlet and four of Othello between 1676 and 1709"--Henrietta C. Barlett, Mr. William Shakespeare.
This copy is without the comma after the word "acted" on the title-page as called for in Bartlett. Her updated Census records twenty-two copies, of which this may be the George L. Harrison-Huntington-Jones copy originally bound in brown levant, but later rebound by Zucker for Newton (see Newton sale description.) Arber II, 64; Bartlett 112; Wing S-2922.