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Shakespeare, William THE SECOND FOLIO. [COMEDIES, HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE TRUE ORIGINALL COPIES. LONDON: THOMAS COTES FOR JOHN SMETHWICK, WILLIAM ASPLEY, RICHARD HAWKINS RICHARD MEIGHEN AND ROBERT ALLOT 1632] folio (309 x 206mm.), the Rufford-Purton copy, engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout and poem "To the reader" (both from the 1684 'Fourth Folio') mounted on front flyleaf, woodcut head-pieces and initials, text in double column, roman and italic type, headlines and catchwords, 'Effigies' leaf in the third setting, manuscript notes by Francis Rufford on front pastedown, throughout the text and on sheets bound in between E6 and F1 and at the end, notes by earlier owners elsewhere, eighteenth century sprinkled calf, raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece, in a collector's cloth folding box, lacking title-page, bbb4 and ccc6-ddd4 (all supplied in manuscript), [π]A3-4 cut down and remounted (both repaired with missing text supplied in manuscript), I3, Z1, c1, f2-f6, s6v, pp1, pp6, rr4 and ccc1 torn and restored with text supplied in text, front flyleaf, e1, l4, ss4 and bbb6 torn and repaired, marginal tears to M1, O3, X5, Y1, Bb3, I3 [signed h3], small holes in bb4, ll3, pp6, yy2, yy3, zz3 and e2, slightly browned and dampstained, occasional ink blots and grease stains, covers slightly scuffed, hinges cracked, corners worn together with 6 sheets of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century letters and notes relating to this copy, 2 pages of notes from the Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-upon-Avon and 3 pages of documents relating to the deposit of this copy at the Library (in 3 envelopes)