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Excerpt from Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice: Edited, With Notes, by William J. Rolfe; Litt; D
The next year it appeared in the first folio, where it ocon pies pages 310 - 3 39 inclusive, in the division of Tragedies. The folio text varies materially from that Of the quarto, and was evidently printed from a different ms. Of the play.
How the publishers of the two editions arranged the ques tion Of Copyright, it is impossible to say.* The copyright of the quarto remained the property Of Walkley until March Ist, 1627 - 8, when it was assigned unto Richard Hawkins, who brought out an edition of it in 1630. In May, 1638, Ursula, widow of Richard Hawkins, assigned the copyright. To Messrs. Mead and Meredith, who in January, 1638-9, dis posed Of it to William Leak, who issued what he termed the fourth edition Of the play in 1655. Other quarto edi tions appeared in 1681, 1687, and 1695 (halliwell).
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