M^r. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Coppies. The second Impression. [Portrait.] _London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard._ 1632. [Colophon] _Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for Iohn Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot,_ 1632.
Engraved portrait as before. Collation: A⁶ (A 3 misprinted A 2) *⁴; A-2B⁶C²a-y⁶2a-3c⁶3d⁴, paged (irregularly and in three parts, beginning respectively on A 1, a 1, and 2a 1, in the last of which the numbering jumps from 168 to 269). Verses to the reader, signed B. I., facing title. Epistle and address as before. Commendatory verses, two copies unsigned not in previous edition, copies signed L. Digges and I. M. List of principal actors. More commendatory verses signed Ben. Ionson, I. M. S. (not in previous edition), and Hugh Holland, Table of contents including ‘Troilus and Cressida’. The three parts have separate pagination and signatures and ‘Troilus and Cressida’ begins those of the tragedies. The misprint in the signatures of the preliminary matter is accounted for by the fact of the compositor having reprinted that in the first folio, irrespective of the fact that the titlepage is here included in the quire. In the present copy sufficient room has not been allowed for the imposition of the portrait which consequently covers some of the printing of the titlepage. In some copies one of the other stationers’ names replaces Allot’s in the imprint. But beyond this there were two distinct settings up of the titlepage. Thus the Grylls copy differs from the present in reading ‘M^{ r.}’ for ‘M^r.’, ‘Copies’ for ‘Coppies’, ‘sold at the signe’ for ‘sold at his shop at the signe’, and ‘Blacke’ for ‘blacke’. There are also two settings of sig. A 5 in the preliminary matter, one having an ornamental initial ‘S’ at the beginning of the first copy of verses, the other a factotum. Second edition.
M^{ r.} William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio, viz, Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas L^d. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. _London, Printed for P. C._ 1664.