Word: quarto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farjeon took his purist's text from the First Folio (1623) and Quarto editions, made his bow to modernizing scholars by offering the best of their changes in the page margins. For the average reader, there was one catch. Farjeon's Nonesuch Shakespeare came in seven volumes at $200 a set, and only 1,600 sets were printed. They have long since become collectors' items. Now the Nonesuch is back in a new, beautifully bound and printed edition, this time not limited, and priced at a more reasonable $35. The New Nonesuch keeps Farjeon's text...