Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630 (editor)
Condell, Henry, -1627 (editor)
Jaggard, Isaac, -1627 (printer)
Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632 (publisher)
Jaggard, William, 1569-1623 (publisher)
Smethwicke, John, -1641 (publisher)
Aspley, William, -1640 (publisher)
Lloyd, John, -1740 (former owner)
Fuller-Eliott-Drake, Francis George Augustus, 1837-1916 (former owner)
Thacher, John Boyd, 1847-1909 (former owner)
Chew, Beverly, 1850-1924 (former owner)
Huntington, Henry Edwards, 1850-1927 (former owner)
Terry, Roderick, 1849-1933 (former owner)
Frost, H. Harvey (former owner)
Fisher, Sidney T., 1908- (former owner)
Walker, Thomas (associated name)
Cornwall, John (associated name)
Wynn, John (associated name)
[18], 303, [1], 46, 49-100, [2], 69-232, [2], 79-80, [26], 98, [2], 109-156, 257-993 (that is, 399) pages : portrait ; 34 cm. (folio)
Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁶ ([superscript pi]A1+1, [superscript pi]A5+1.2) A-2B⁶ 2C² a-g⁶ [superscript chi]2g⁸ h-v⁶ x⁴ [chi]1 2[chi]1 ¶-2¶⁶ 3¶1 2a-2f⁶ 2g² [superscript chi]2G⁶ 2h⁶ 2k-3b⁶ (leaf [chi]1 replacing a leaf originally printed as the third leaf of what became gathering 2g and leaf 2[chi]1 originally printed as the fourth leaf of the same gathering, as explained in detail in Greg, W.W. The Shakespeare First Folio, 1955, pages 445-447); with the following signatures wrongly designated: V[1] signed Vv (page 229 of second pagination sequence); a3 signed Aa3 (page 5 of fourth pagination sequence); m3 signed l3 (page 121 of seventh pagination sequence); bb2 signed Bb2 (page 15 of eleventh pagination sequence); Gg2 signed gg2 (page 81, that is, page 79, of eleventh pagination sequence); Gg3 signed gg3 (page 81 of eleventh pagination sequence); nn[1]-2 signed Nn[1]-2 (pages 145 and 147 of thirteenth pagination sequence); oo[1] signed Oo[1] (page 257 of fourteenth pagination sequence); [oo2] unsigned (page 259 of fourteenth pagination sequence); tt2 signed tt3 (page 319 of fourteenth pagination sequence); xx[1]-3 signed x[1]-3s (pages 341, 343, and 345 of fourteenth pagination sequence); yy2-3 signed y2-3 (pages 355 and 357 of fourteenth pagination sequence).
Colophon (page 993, that is, page 399, of fourteenth pagination sequence): Printed at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley, 1623.
Collected and published by John Heminge and Henry Condell (as described in Greg, W.W. The Shakespeare First Folio, 1955, pages 81-89).
Errors in pagination: pages 50, 59, 86, 153, 161, 164-165, 189, 237, 249-250 and 265 (second pagination sequence) numbered 58, 51, 88, 151, 163, 162-163, 187, 233, 251-252 and 273 respectively; page 37 (fourth pagination sequence) numbered 39; pages 89-90 (fifth pagination sequence) numbered 91-92; pages 165-166 and 216 (seventh pagination sequence) numbered 167-168 and 218 respectively; pages 77-80 (eleventh pagination sequence) numbered 79-82; pages 279, 282, 308, 379 and 399 (fourteenth pagination sequence) numbered 259, 280, 38, 389 and 993 respectively.
Fisher copy: in early 18th century, owned by John Lloyd; before 1883, owned by Sir Francis George Augustus Fuller-Eliott-Drake; in 1883-1885, through Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge and Quaritch to John Boyd Thacher; around 1909, to Beverly Chew ; in 1912, to Henry Huntington; in 1916, through George D. Smith to Roderick Terry; in 1934-1937, through Anderson Galleries, Gabriel Wells, and W.H. Robinson Ltd to H. Harvey Frost; in 1955, through Days Booksellers and Colonel W. N. Pettigrew to Sidney T. Fisher. CaOTUTF
