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and stuck that play into the First Folio late and unpaginated.) Aspley's price for his rights was inclusion in the syndicate as one of its "junior partners," along with
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were preparing to publish the First Folio, they needed to obtain the rights to eighteen
Shakespearean plays already in print. (They had trouble getting the rights to
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before the end of 1600, editions printed for Wise and Aspley by
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Chapman, Vol. 3, pp. 253–4, 291, 431; Vol. 4, p. 52.
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