{"product_id":"1442300-1663-shakespeare","title":"1442300 1663 Shakespeare.  Third Folio.  The Constable\/Drexel Copy.","description":"9192. \u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShakespeare.  Third Folio.  1663.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Printing.  Rarest of the Four Folios.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Constable\/Drexel copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e'Incomparably the most important work in the English language' (W.A. Jackson  Pforzheimer Catalogue).  Shakespeare, William.  Comedies, Histories and Tragedies.  The Third Impression [Works].  London: printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1663.  Folio (measures 13 by 8-5\/8 inches).  Early 19th century full brown calf gilt rebacked with original gilt spine laid down.  Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box.  Third collected issue of Shakespeare's plays, first issue, without the added seven plays found in the second issue.  Exceedingly rare and desireable.  \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe folios of Shakespeare, because of their incalculable impact on the language, thought and literature of our world, are the most desireable of all English language books, the prize of any collection; the Third Folio is the rarest of the four folio editions, due in part to its partial destruction by the Great Fire of 1666.  The first issue of the Third Folio is a page-for-page reprint of the 1632 Second Folio.  With 'To the Reader' verse leaf and title page in neat facsimile.  Greg III, p. 1116; Pforzheimer 908; Wing S-2913.  Armorial bookplates of William Constable, Joseph W. Drexel and Lucy Wharton Drexel.  Contemporary marginal notes and corrections on pp. 802-803, 812, 829.  Leaves A3-A4 remargined, worm track in lower margin of quires C-D and another in F-G, marginal soiling, repair to inner margin of last leaf, tear in Q4 just entering border.  Light age-wear to sound, attractive early 19th-century calf binding.  A very desirable copy of the edition.  Bauman private sale 4\/26\/06.\u003c\/div\u003e  Good","brand":"1663","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033784656045,"sku":"9192","price":125000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/7646\/products\/9192.jpg?v=1636224827","url":"https:\/\/www.nrarities.com\/products\/1442300-1663-shakespeare","provider":"The Gillespie Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}