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A pleasing and early octavo printing. Engraved frontispiece, engraved head-piece and a six-line engraved initial at the beginning of the text Small 8vo, bound in later blue wrappers, hand calligraphed on the cover in brown ink. 96pp. A fine and well preserved copy, the blue wrappers as pristine.

Edizione: very scarce. from the important theobold oeuvre. although theobold ultimately gave way to johnson in popularity, he remains one of the pre-eminent shakespearean editors. churton collins, writing in the dnb, claimed it “would not be too much to say that the text of shakespeare owes more to theobold than to any other editor.”<br> the collection also draws on two rival editions, j. tonson’s and r. walker’s. although the two are nearly identical, tonson issued an advertisement warning the public against “such useless, pirated, and maim’d editions, as are publish’d by the said r. walker.” <br> henry vi part iii contains famous quotations among which are:<br><br>how sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,<br>within whose circuit is elysium<br>and all that poets feign of bliss and joy.<br>(richard, act 1 scene 2)<br><br>o, tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!<br>(york, act 1 scene 4) <br><br>my crown is in my heart, not on my head.<br>(king henry, act 3 scene 1)<br><br>yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.<br>(gloucester, act 4 scene 1)<br><br>for trust not him that hath once broken faith.<br>(lady grey, act 4 scene 4)<br><br>fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.<br>(gloucester, act 4 scene 7)<br><br>and live we how we can, yet die we must.<br>(warwick, act 5 scene 2)<br><br>suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.<br>(gloucester, act 5 scene 6)<br><br><br>