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October 15, 06:04 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFT...[BOUND WITH:] THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXT... [AND WITH:] THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXT...[AND WITH] THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXT...LONDON: PRINTED BY THO. COTES, 1632
Folio (12 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.; 308 x 216 mm). 69-95; 96-119; 120-146; 147-172pp. Expertly bound to style in panelled calf, covers tooled in blind, up🅰per cover gilt lettered.
From Shakespeare's second folio
Shakespeare's famed four folios comprise the first four editions of his collected p🍸lays, all printe🔯d in the 17th century. The second folio of 1632, like the first folio of 1623, contains 36 plays. It is estimated that fewer than 1,000 copies of the Second Folio were printed and fewer than 200 copies are in existence today.
In "Henry V," an insult from a French Dauphin pushes the King of England to 𝔍invade France in order to claim what he believes to be his rightful throne. This play encompasses the events prior to and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War.
(See lots 123-127)
REFERENCE:
STC 22274a; Gre💦g III:1113-1116. Jaggardꦇ 496; Pforzheimer 906