Meanings of first quarto in English

The following passages are not to be found in the first quarto:-

In the first quarto, the figure of Laertes is but rapidly indicated.

There is no trace, in the first quarto, of the following most characteristic thoughts:-

This scene is, in the first quarto, a mere hasty sketch, but faintly indicated.

The passage is wanting in the first quarto.

He often boasted of having printed the first quarto edition of the Bible that was ever issued in the United States.

Shakspere's play was entered in the 'Stationers' Register' (corresponding to present-day copyrighting) in 1602, and his play was first published (the first quarto) in 1603.

10: This description is wanting in the first quarto.

(This first quarto is also printed in the 'Variorum' edition.)

52: This whole scene is nearly new (in the first quarto it is a mere sketch).

32: Monologue of the first quarto:-

(243) The first quarto volume of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.-E.