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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.] image 1
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.] image 2
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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.]

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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 have
been 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.

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