The earliest texts of William Shakespeare's works were published during the 16th and 17th centuries in quarto or folio format. Folios are large, tall volumes; quartos are smaller, roughly half the siz
The additional plays section in the 1664 second impression of the Third Folio.
John Benson (publisher)
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John Benson was a London publisher of the middle seventeenth century, best remembered for a historically important publication of the Sonnets and miscellaneous poems of William Shakespeare in 1640.
The frontispiece to Benson's edition of Shakespeare's poems
