Date:1600
Description:‘I know a bank where the wild thyme blows...’. The name ‘quarto’ used for the earliest printed texts of some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays refers to the size of the finished pamphlet, for which the printer has folded his sheets of paper twice, making eight pages, whereas for the larger folio the sheet has been folded only once. The publication of ‘quarto’ editions of the plays enabled the audience to read for themselves their favourite scenes and speeches, such as those of Oberon the fairy king, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. See: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2,1, lines 249-252. Full title: William Shakespeare, A midsommer nights dreame. As it hath beene sundry times publikely acted, Written by William Shakespeare. [London], Printed by James Roberts, 1600. [i.e. William Jaggard for Thomas Pavier, 1619]. The Quaritch copy, bound in red morocco by Bedford.
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