'Troilus and Cressida' & 'Coriolanus' from the Second Folio of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare / Second Folio. The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida. The Tragedy of Coriolanus. London: Tho. Cotes, 1632.Folio [34.4 x 23.3 cm], pp. 1-60, with woodcut head-pieces, initials, and tail-piece. Quarter bound in modern calf and marbled paper over card, spine gold-stamped with titles and date. Short separation of joint at upper extremity of upper cover, rubbing and edge wear to spine and boards. Staining and edge wear to upper outer margin with small losses, the occasional minor stain elsewhere.
 
 
The tragedies of Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602) and Coriolanus (c. 1605-08) extracted from the Second Folio (1632) of William Shakespeare’s collected plays. These titles begin the ‘Tragedies’ section of the work, and so the ‘Prologue’ to The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida is paginated here as page 1. The final page here is the beginning of The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, which was printed on the verso of the concluding page of Coriolanus.
 
The 1632 Second Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays provided numerous corrections to the text of the First Folio of 1623. It was printed by Thomas Cotes, who had taken over the Jaggard printing shop following Isaac Jaggard’s death in 1627. Like the First Folio, the Second Folio was printed for a syndicate of publishers, which again included John Smethwick and William Aspley. 
 
 
*STC 22274.