First Folio.- Shakespeare (William) The Winter's Tale, pp.277-303 extracted from the first folio, double column within single filet border, woodcut head-piece, initial and tail-piece, trimmed at head, affecting headlines to varying degrees, and on 2B1 just touching part of a few letters of text, 2A1 (first f.) repair to outer margin, just touching part of the odd letter, 2A6 small repair within text, with loss of a few letters, 2C2 repair to inner margin, just touching the odd letter of the list of actors, also with a repaired tear at foot, modern red morocco-backed marbled boards, housed in modern cloth drop-back box, red morocco label to spine, [STC 22273; Pforzheimer 905; Grolier English 19; PMM 122; Greg, III, p. 1109-12], folio (sheets averaging c.305 x 203mm.), [Isaac Jaggard, and Edward Blount at the Charges of W. Jaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley], 1623.

⁂ A rare opportunity to acquire this individual play from the First Folio. We can trace only one other copy of The Winters Tale being sold individually at auction (Swann, 2016, for $20,000 hammer). Our copy bears evidence of early female ownership.

Provenance: 'Elizabeth'; 'Care' (17th century ink inscriptions in different hands to head of first f.); ?'Mear' or 'Merr' (17th century ink inscription to foot of 2B6r).