Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue DureeFour years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a collected works of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format but as a series of more humble quarto pamphlets. For mysterious reasons, perhaps involving Shakespeare's playing company, the King's Men, the project ran into trouble. In an attempt to salvage it, information on the title pages of some of the playbooks was