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LIST OF QUARTO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS BEFORE 1628

		Entry in Stationers’ Register	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Q6	Q7	Q8	Q9
Venus and Adonis		Apr. 18, 1593	1593	1594	?[1]	1596	1599	1599	1602	1617	1620
Lucrece		May 9, 1594	1594	1598	1600	1607	1616
Titus Andronicus		Feb. 6, 1594	1594	1600	1611
Richard II		Aug. 29, 1597	1597	1598	1598	1608[2]	1615
Richard III		Oct. 20, 1597	1597	1598	1602	1605	1612	1622
Romeo and Juliet	}	No entry of either till Jan. 22, 1607	1597	1599	1609	n.d.[2]
Love’s Labour’s Lost			?[3]	1598
1 Henry IV		Feb. 25, 1598	1598[4]	1599	1604	1608	1613	1622
Merchant of Venice		July 17, 1598[5]	1600	‘1600’ (1619)[6]
Henry V		Aug. 4, 1600	1600	1602	‘1608’ (1619)[6]
Much Ado about Nothing		Aug. 4, 1600[5]	1600
2 Henry IV		Aug. 23, 1600	1600
Midsummer Night’s Dream		Oct. 8, 1600	1600	‘1600’ (1619)[6]
Merry Wives of Windsor		Jan. 18, 1602	1602	1619
Hamlet		July 26, 1602	1603	1604 1605[7]	1611	n.d.
Lear		Nov. 26, 1607	1608	‘1608’ (1619)[6]
Sonnets		May 20, 1609	1609
Troilus and Cressida		Feb. 7, 1603[5]	1609[2]
Pericles		May 20, 1608	1609	1609	1611	1619
Othello		Oct. 6, 1621	1622

1. Only one fragmentary copy known, from which title-page and date are missing.
2. There are two issues of this edition with differing title-pages only. (The later issue of Troilus and Cressida adds a preface.)
3. No copy known, but there is reason to believe that the 1598 edition was not the first.
4. There is a fragmentary copy thought to be earlier than this.
5. Provisional entries. Later entries of Merchant of Venice, Oct. 28, 1600; Much Ado, Aug. 28, 1600; Troilus and Cressida, Jan. 28, 1609.
6. Spurious edition bearing false date, really printed in 1619.
7. Some copies of the second edition of Hamlet are dated 1604, others 1605.