Andrew Wise, who published this edition, entered the play in the Stationers' Register on February 25, 1598, suggesting it was printed early in the year. Produced the same year as five other editions of Shakespeare's history plays, this quarto of Henry IV Part 1 appeared at the height of the popularity of histories in the book trade. Because it is so incomplete, scholars traditionally classify this fragment quarto as “Q0,” and the second quarto as “Q1.” Identified by its signature as gathering C, this fragment consists of eight pages of printed text, featuring the passages that modern editions usually designate as act 1, scene 3, line 200 to act 2, scene 2, line 108. This edition of Henry IV Part 1 survives only as a single gathering of four leaves from a copy of the quarto published in 1598.
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