The Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies are separately paged with many errors, last page numbered 993. Collation, errors in paging and signatures agree with those of the edition of 1623 except that the "Catalogue of the seuerall Comedies, etc." is the 12th preliminary page, and page 37 of the Histories is correctly numbered

Original t.p.: Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall Copies. London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623 (with Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare)

With the dedication and the preface "To the great variety of readers [signed] Iohn Heminge, Henrie Condell."

Tempest - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Merry Wives of Windsor - Measure for Measure - Comedie of Errors - Much adoe about nothing - Loves labour's lost - Midsommer nights dreame - Merchant of Venice - As you like it - Taming of the shrew - All's well that ends well - Twelfe night, or what you will - Winters tale - King John-King Richard the Second - First [and second] part of Henry the Fourth-Henry the Fift - First [- third part] ... Henry the Sixt-Richard the Third-King Henry the Eight - Troylus and Cressida - Coriolanus - Titus Andronicus - Romeo and Juliet - Tymon of Athens - Iulius Caesar - Macbeth - Hamlet - King Lear - Othello - Anthonie and Cleopatra - Cymbeline

The original, which is the first folio edition, is on shelf-number **G.174.1

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