SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Much adoe about Nothing. -- Loves Labour's Lost. [Extracted from the Second Folio]. [London: printed by Thomas Cotes, 1632]. Folio (300 x 207 mm). Comprising 44 pages (pp. 101-144) on 22 leaves (I3-M6). (A few rule borders slightly shaved, affecting the signature and catchword on one leaf, some minor staining to a few leaves.) 20th-century brown morocco-backed boards, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover. Provenance: Bennett H. Jackson (bookplate). Second folio printing of these Shakespearean comedies. Much Ado about Nothing was first published in a quarto edition in 1600 which is generally regarded as being accurate and reliable. Loves Labour's Lost was first published in a quarto edition of 1598. The title-page of that edition states that the play was "Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere," suggesting it is a revision of an earlier edition. These quarto editions of each play are the basis of the text published in the 1623 First Folio, which was reprinted nearly page-for-page and issued just 9 years later as the Second Folio. See W.B. Todd. "The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton's Epitaph," in: Studies in Bibliography V (1952-53), pp. 81-108. (for Second Folio). Property from the Collection of Edward A. Quattrocchi