[Shakespeare (William) Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.Published According to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression], second collected edition, printed in double-column, woodcut decorations and initials, 6 later ms. ff. bound in supplying additional section of Cymbeline, A1 ('To the Reader'), A2 (title with portrait) and A5 (commendatory verses) plus 8 ff. of main text (c2 and last 7 ff.) all replaced in modern facsimile, 7 further preliminary ff. supplied from another, slightly shorter copy, A1 (first f. of The Tempest) mounted & silked, 4 other ff. silked, a few ff. with later repair to fore-corners, some minor marking and browning, with very occasional 18th century marginalia, handsomely bound in full antique-style calf with terracotta morocco spine label by Bayntun, [STC 22274a; Greg III, p.1113-1115], folio [332 x 226 mm.], [Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632]. "Though many errors were introduced in the course of reprinting, the text of the present edition shows signs of careful, if unauthorised, revision." Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration, vol.III, p.1113-1115. The facsimile leaves are supplied from the 1909 Methuen edition, sympathetically toned to fit.

***The second folio edition, and one of the most important editions of Shakespeare's collected writings..