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The Tragoedy of Othello, The Moore of Venice. As it hath beene diuerse times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers; by his Maiesties Seruants.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Boston Public Library. Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare · 1622 · London : Printed by N. O[kes]. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Eagle and Child, in Brittans Bursse · 6 pictures

A 1622 quarto edition of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, printed in London by N. Okes for publisher Thomas Walkley, aimed at English playgoers and readers of the period. The pictures are not scenes from the play but printers' ornaments: two horizontal cartouche bands with a central oval panel flanked by scrolling foliage, and two decorative woodcut initial letters T with interlaced leafy and strapwork patterns, useful for borders, headers, and drop-cap studies.

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