Shakespeares History Of King Henry The Fifth Classic Reprint

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334051951
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth: Reprint of First Quarto, 1600 The following reprint was set up, through the liberality of Mr F. W. Cosens, from his copy of the Ashbee fac-simile of 1868. The proofs were then read with the British Museum original, C. 12. G., King's, and where there was a blurred letter or other cause of doubt, Mr W. Aldis Wright referred for me to the Capell quarto. Afterwards the revises were read with Mr Henry Ruth's quarto kindly lent me for that purpose. Each page, in its general arrangement and in each line, fac similes the original as much as possible. The old and worn, and sometimes more than worn type, \is not of course imitated. Nor the paper, which may be said to be of about the average quality of these quarto pamphlets, thin, but not so poor as in some, nor so good as in others. Nor have those occasional curvings and irregularities of the lines which betoken over-carelessness in the compositor been followed. Nor that over-size of the Roman capitals which caused him now and then to place them rather below line, nor the somewhat varied shapes of some of the italic capitals. Nor is the occasional nonvspacing of a colon or semi colon, nor the frequent non-spacing after a comma, followed, unless occasionally by way of example had it been, the openness of the reprint as compared with the greater closeness of the words in the original would have over-exaggerated an irregularity, which, as regards the comma, is so constant a practice in books of that period that it can hardly be called an irregularity. Nor except on p. 16 have the displacements of letters a little out of the level of the rest been imitated. But all other irregularities and errors have, that the reader may know something of what the old quarto is like, and be enabled to judge, as far as may be, of its character. With this view it may be worth adding by way of note, that as the substitutions of italic capitals for Roman, and the reverse, occur chie y in groups, it may be inferred that they were not so much due to error, as to the temporary exhaustion of the case. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."