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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants. London: printed for Rich. Wellington and E. Rumball, 1703.
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants. London: printed for Rich. Wellington and E. Rumball, 1703.
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants. London: printed for Rich. Wellington and E. Rumball, 1703.
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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants. London: printed for Rich. Wellington and E. Rumball, 1703.

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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants. London: printed for Rich. Wellington and E. Rumball, 1703.

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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now acted by Her Majesties Servants. London: printed for Rich. Wellington and E. Rumball, 1703.

The Roderick Terry copy of the tenth or eleventh edition of Hamlet. One of the so-called ‘players’ editions’, it contains a text representative of theatrical practice at the time. The preliminary note ‘To the Reader’ is as follows: ‘This Play being too long to be conveniently Acted, such places as might be least prejudicial to the Plot or Sense, are left out upon the stage’, but those lines which are necessarily excised for the sake of the production are nevertheless included here in quotation marks. There were apparently three issues or editions printed in 1703, with the type being reset for each; this copy has ‘Barnardo’ and ‘twelve, get’ on p.1. Bartlett 89; Jaggard p.308; Pforzheimer 882.

Quarto (223 x 166mm). (Title lightly soiled, some browning, small holes with minor loss to last two leaves of text and advertisement leaf, a few headlines just trimmed.) 19th-century brown half morocco by MacDonald (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: occasional early corrections and annotations in ink – Roderick Terry (1876-1933; bookplate, his sale American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 2-3 May 1934, lot 295).
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