This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...modern text without other warrant than that they are interpolations made by the earlier editors who took it for granted that an earlier text was authoritative. Yet if any faith in Mr. Walkley's copy survive a careful examination of its differences from that of Shakespeare's Fellowes, the witness of the second Quarto edition of the play is utterly against it, for its printer confesses the superior authority of the Folio by inserting from it all the noticeable passages omitted in the first Quarto, while showing by the fact that he lets the less noticeable variations slide, and repeats many petty peculiarities, that he has followed Walkley's copy, although he tried to improve it, by the Folio, as the text authoritative for him. 2Q. This is, despite these changes, clearly, by many typographical signs, a re-issue of iQ., with the same titlepage except that there is a new printer'sdevice and anew stationer, made known in the lines below the device as follows: 'Printed by A. M. for Richard Ha'wkins, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Chancery-Lane, neere Sergeants-Inne 1630.' The Stationers' Registers are surety for the fact that Thomas Walkley, the publisher of iQ., assigned to Richird Hawkins, the publisher of zQ., on 'i"10 Martii' 1628, 'all the estate right title and Interest which he hath' in three plays, one of these being Shakespeare's, namely, 'Orthello the More of Venice.' No editor since Collier supposes, as he seems to suppose, that zQ. is not derived from iQ. The Cambridge editors state that after 'a minute comparison' it appeared clear to them 'that the Quarto of 1630 must have been printed from.. the Quarto of 1622, which had received additions and corrections in manuscript.. agreeing for the most part with the First Folio.' Mr. H. A. Evans, in...