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 W. W. Greg, W. Jaggard, A. W. Pollard, and A. H. Huth in 2 Library, ix. 113, 381; x. 208; and 3 Library, i. 36, 46; ii. 101; and summed up by A. W. Pollard, Shakespeare Folios and Quartos, 81. Confirmatory evidence is adduced by W. J. Niedig, The Shakespeare Quartos of 1619 (M. P. viii. 145) and False Dates on Shakespeare Quartos (1910, Century, 912). S. R. 1623, Nov. 8 (Worrall). 'Master William Shakspeers Comedyes Histories, and Tragedyes soe manie of the said Copies as are not formerly entred to other men. viz^t Comedyes The Tempest The two gentlemen of Verona Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors As you like it All's well that ends well Twelfe Night The winters tale Histories The thirde parte of Henry ye Sixt Henry the eight Tragedies Coriolanus Timon of Athens Julius Caesar Mackbeth Anthonie and Cleopatra Cymbeline' Blounte and Isaak Jaggard (Arber, iv. 107). [This entry covers all the plays in F_{1} not already printed, except Taming of the Shrew, King John, and 2, 3 Henry VI, which were doubtless regarded from the stationer's point of view as identical with the Taming of A Shrew, Troublesome Reign of King John, and Contention of York and Lancaster, on which they were based. The 'thirde parte of Henry ye Sixt' is of course the hitherto unprinted 1 Henry VI.] [F_{1}] 1623. M^{r}. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Published according to the True Originall Copies. By ''Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount''. [Colophon] Printed [by W. Jaggard] ''at the charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smethweeke, and W. Aspley''. [Verses to the Reader, signed B[en] I[onson]; Portrait signed 'Martin Droeshout sculpsit London'; Epistles to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery and to the great Variety of Readers, both signed 'Iohn Heminge, Henry Condell'; Commendatory Verses signed 'Ben: Ionson', 'Hugh Holland', 'L. Digges', 'I. M.'; 'The Names of the Principall Actors in all these Playes'; 'A Catalogue of the seuerall Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies contained in this Volume'.] S. R. 1627, June 19 [on or after]. Transfer from Dorothy widow of Isaac Jaggard to Thomas and Richard Cotes of 'her parte in Schackspheere playes' (Arber, iv. 182). S. R. 1630, Nov. 16. Transfer from Blount to Robert Allot by note dated 26 June 1630 of his 'estate and right' in the sixteen plays of the 1623 entry (Arber, iv. 243). [F_{2}] 1632. Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen and Robert Allot. [So colophon: there are t.ps. with separate imprints by Cotes for each of the five booksellers.] [F_{3}] 1663. For Philip Chetwinde. [For the second issue of 1664, with Pericles and six apocryphal plays added, cf. p. 203.] [F_{4}] 1685. For H. Herringman (and others). Of later editions the most valuable for literary history are those by E. Malone, revised by J. Boswell (1821, the Third Variorum Shakespeare, 21 vols.); W. A. Wright (1891-3, the Cambridge Shakespeare, 9 vols.); F. J. Furnivall and others (1885-91, the Shakespeare Quarto