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Photograph of the portrait engraving of playwright William Shakespeare in the frontispiece of Comedies, histories, & tragedies in first edition printed London, 1623

Photograph of the portrait engraving of playwright William Shakespeare in the frontispiece of Comedies, histories, & tragedies in first edition printed London, 1623
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Photograph of the portrait engraving of playwright William Shakespeare in the frontispiece of Comedies, histories, & tragedies in first edition printed London, 1623. The rare first edition of the collection of Shakespeare plays is printed on paper. The portrait shows the author’s face and Elizabethan tunic with high collar. Photograph by Nathan Benn taken with kind permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1986.

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Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, Di

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