STC 22318 copy 2, title page
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The tragedie of King Richard the third. Containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent nephewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath beene lately acted by the Kings Maiesties seruants. Newly augmented, by William Shake-speare.
Date: London : Printed by Thomas Creede, and are to be sold by Mathew Lawe, dwelling in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Foxe, neare S. Austins gate, 1612.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 22318 copy 2, title page
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Creator: William Shakespeare
Title: The tragedie of King Richard the third. Containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pittifull murther of his innocent nephewes: his tyrannicall vsurpation: with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserued death. As it hath beene lately acted by the Kings Maiesties seruants. Newly augmented, by William Shake-speare.
Date: London : Printed by Thomas Creede, and are to be sold by Mathew Lawe, dwelling in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Foxe, neare S. Austins gate, 1612.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA
Call number and opening: STC 22318 copy 2, title page
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Folger Shakespeare Library staff, "Richard III, fifth edition," Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/276.
Folger Shakespeare Library, STC 22318 copy 2. See Shakespeare Documented, https://doi.org/10.37078/276.
This is the fifth edition of Richard III, printed in 1612. Like the fourth edition, it was printed by Thomas Creede for Matthew Law. This edition, like those before and after it, is substantially the same as the first edition; a different version was used for the text in the First Folio.
The copy shown above is one of two owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library, and is one of twelve listed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Henry Folger purchased it in October 1918 for $2750, and it includes a pasted-in etched portrait of Richard III by Wenceslaus Hollar from a later book.
To learn more about the plot and early printing history of Richard III, please see the Folger’s Shakespeare's Works and the British Library’s Shakespeare in Quarto, which also contains information about another copy of this edition.
Written by Folger Shakespeare Library staff
Sources
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, eds. Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), s.v. "Richard III."
Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, British Drama, 1533-1642: A Catalogue, Vol. III: 1590-1597 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), s.v. "950. Richard III."
Last updated January 25, 2020
