They also made sure to place a “new” play (one that wasn’t already available in print in a quarto) at the start of both the comedies and the tragedies. Most of the history plays that were previously printed were already named for kings, but not all of them. They named the history plays according to the kings who reigned during the events in the plays and put the plays in the order of the kings’ reigns. The journal has a long history, having been established in 1849 in London it is now published by Oxford University Press.Heminge and Condell grouped Shakespeare’s plays in the First Folio into three categories for the first time: the comedies, the histories, and the tragedies. Its emphasis is on "the factual rather than the speculative". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press "Notes and Queries", also styled "Notes & Queries", is a long-running quarterly scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism". His published works, include, among many others: (1968). He had previously taught at the University of Birmingham, Harvard University, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Essex. The actual identification fo the compositors remains a little more speculative.As a result of the authors labours.one has before him a great deal of previously inaccessible information.' Philip Edwards, "Notes and Queries, April, 1964 Philip Walter Edwards, whose typescript for "Notes and Queries", is included with the volumes, was a British literary scholar, the King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1974 to 1990. The differentiation of the work of one compositor from another by means of the recurrence of identifiable type is probably the authors most important contribution to editorial work. It is claimed that what really modifies a copy in the printing house ids the individual compositor's way of handing his text. The author has examined as completely as possible the modifications which the text of Shakespeare was subject to, once it reached Jaggard's printing house. Its primary aim is to furnish students with information which they need to have but with which they are not likely to be familiar: when and how and by what individual workmen the various parts of the First Folio were produced and in what ways textual integrity was sometimes affected during printing." - Publisher notes 'This gigantic work, which is an important contribution to the history of printing, s submitted as an aid to student's of Shakepeare's text. It proceeds by detailed bibliographicals alone. "This book systematically reconstructs the printing of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. A VERY FINE COPY, PROBABLY PHILIP EDWARDS' OWN COPY. An especially fine copy, the text-block and illustrations all clean and well preserved, this copy, essentially as pristine. Large 8vo, publisher's original navy cloth, gilt-lettered the spines, and in the dustjackets. Illustrated throughout out with figures and charts in the text. With an original typescript of Philip Edwards' review for "Notes and Queries" 1964 included. Its a tremendous book, worth preserving for future generations, and to have a copy of one of the worlds greatest writers works, to have graced our planet, is something to behold.Ģ volumes. Please note this is a large heavy book therefore postage/shipping may increase from listed price dependant on final destination. Binding by Russell-Rutter Company, New York. Offset Plates and Presswork by The Murray Printing Company, Forge Village, Mass. Paper Supplied by Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation, New York. Special Composition by Haber Typographers, Inc, New York. Photography by Campbell Photo & Printing Service, Washington. All pages, text and illustrations are in excellent, clean, readable order. 923 pages, plus Appendix B: Folger Copies Used, pages. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Its a well used book, with loads of charm, its in reasonably good condition. Comes with a ripped and torn, dust jacket. A very large and substantial hardback book, blue cloth with gilt title impressions on the spine.
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