SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.


The Life of King Henry the Fifth; The First Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth. [London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1632.] Folio (312 x 216 mm). Modern blue morocco backed cloth. Small pencil notation to upper corner of recto of each leaf, minor soiling to leaves, tearing to a few leaves, repaired.1632 PRINTING OF FOUR OF SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST HISTORIES, extracted from the Second Folio, and handsomely bound. Constituting the middle plays of Shakespeare's eight-play sequence chronicling the War of the Roses, these four works are believed not to havebeen written in chronological order. Henry VI parts 1-3 are believed to have been written in 1591, and Henry V roughly eight years later in 1599.