Shakespeare, W: M. William Shak-Speare's King Lear - William Shakespeare

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Excerpt from M. William Shak-Speare's King Lear: The First Quarto, 1608; A Facsimile (From the British Museum Copy, C. 34; K. 18;) On neither Q? Is any mention made of the printer; the books are merely said to be printed for N. Butter. The printer's device on the Title of Q? 1 is that of a firm of printers at Frank fort, A. Wechelum and his successors. It is found on numerous books issued by them between 1575 and 1630, how much earlier or later I have not ascertained I refer the curious in such matters to my own source of information, the collection of Title-pages made by J. Bagford, in the British Museum (463 The device on the Q1 Lear is evidently cast from one of the smaller Frank fort dies. What printer or stationer first used it in England I do not know; from the numerous nonsense words OI of King Lear one is tempted to believe that he was a foreigner, imperfectly acquainted with English. Mr. Furness suggests that Nicholas Okes, the printer of the first edition of Otbe/lo, 1622, who then used this same device, may also be the printer of Q1 King Lear. His name as a printer first appears in the British Museum Cata logue of Early English Books in 1606. Later the same device is found on the Title of the 2nd folio ed. Of Beaumont 8: Fletcher, printed by J. Macock, for J. Martyn, etc, 1659. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.