ESTC T62752. ESTC lists 16 copies. Western copy listed.Folger note:
Anonymous. By John Holt.
Apparently a reissue of the sheets of the first edition entitled ’An attempte to rescue .. Maister Williaume Shakespere’ with a new titlepage and half-title.
Corrigenda signed: P.A.D., 26th January, 1885. Originally published: At London : Printed by Valentine Sims, for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the Signe of the Angell, 1597. Facsimile of STC 22314. (From Folger)
Originally published: London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, and are to sold by Mathew Law, dwelling in Pauls Church-yard, at the Signe of the Foxe, neere S. Austines gate, 1622. Facsimile of STC 22319. (From Folger)
Cover dated 1887.Issued also in the Shakespeare library, 1907.
With reproduction of original t.-p.
A reissue, with a few corrections and additions, of the Ballad Society edition: Captain Cox, his ballads and books; or, Robert Laneham's Letter .. 1871.
ESTC T62198. Western copy not listed. Dedication signed and dated: The. Cibber, Nov. 25, 1748.
Arnott gives date as 1750, advertised 1st October 1750.
"Some lines are borrowed from Otway's Caius Marius as well as the whole scene in the last act in which Juliet awakes"--W. Jaggard, Shakespeare bibliography.
Folger notes:
"Price one shilling and six-pence" on title page
Arnott, J.F. Engl. theatrical lit., 2612
Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography, p. 444. [between 1748 and 1750] (Folger)
Binding: Rebound in blue cloth by the Bookshelf Bindery of Ridgetown, Ontario. Numerous engravings in black, blue, & sepia. Limited edition of 350 copies (number 335).
Additional t.-p. preceeding text: The most excellent and lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. Written by William Shakespeare. Newly revised and corrected on the first completed ed., that of 1599, Q.̊ 2. …
"This reproduction ... has been printed directly from the facsimile prepared by Mr. E. W. Ashbee, under the direction of Mr. J. O. Halliwell (Phillipps)"With reproduction of original title: [Ornament] An Excellent conceited Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of Hunsdon his Seruants. [Printer's mark] London, Printed by John Danter. 1597. (The ornament at head of title in this facsimile differs from that in Daniel's Parallel texts of the first two quartos (ser. II, no. 1, 1874) and also from that in Praetorius' facsimile of the British museum copy, 1886, which agrees with that given by Pollard in his Shakespeare folios and quartos, 1909, and in Winsor's Bibl. of the original quartos and folios, 1876)
"This reproduction ... has been printed directly from the facsimile prepared by Mr. E. W. Ashbee, under the direction of Mr. J. O. Halliwell (Phillipps)"
With reproduction of original title: [Ornament] An Excellent conceited Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of Hunsdon his Seruants. ]Printer's mark] London, Printed by John Danter. 1597. (The ornament at head of title in this facsimile differs from that in Daniel's Parallel texts of the first two quartos (ser. II, no. 1, 1874) and also from that in Praetorius' facsimile of the British museum copy, 1886, which agrees with that given by Pollard in his Shakespeare folios and which agrees with that given by Pollard in his Shakespeare folios and which agrees with that given by Pollard in his Shakespeare folios and quartos, 1909, and in Winsor's Bibl. of the original quartos and folios, 1876).
"This reproduction ... has been printed directly from the facsimile prepared by Mr. E. W. Ashbee, under the direction of Mr. J. O. Halliwell (Philipps), and has been carefully compared with the Quarto in the British museum."With reproduction of original t.-p.: The Most Excellent and lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Iuliet. Newly corrected, augmented, and amended: As it hath bene sundry times publiquely acted, by the righ Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. [Printer's mark] London Printed by Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at his shop neare the Exchange, 1599.
Additional t.-p. preceding text: The most excellent and lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. Written by William Shakespeare. Newly revised and corrected on the first completed ed., that of 1599, Q ̊2.
"Rhomeo and Iulietta" has special t.-p.: The goodly Hystory of the true and constant Loue betweene Rhomeo and Julietta."
With reproductions of original t.-p.: The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet, written first in Italian by Bandell, and nowe in Englishe by Ar. Br. In aedibus Richardi Totteli. Cum Priuilegio.
