The image on the left is of the beginning of the first page of the first Folio which contains the first spoken word of the entire work. Note the inverted "B". This page was bound in and not discarded, as one would expect with such a "misprint." The second image is from the second edition of the Folio printed in 1632 which was almost exactly the same, except for the change to this "illuminated letter," which is half again as large and contains some rather curious illustration.
    Who is that little man hiding behind this letter? Did he light those lamps to help us to read this word? Why does the smoke rise in the form of two question marks, one reversed? Why are there three toes with claws hanging above his head? Does his turban suggest an east Indian fakir? Was the original "B" replaced with this abstruse uncial adornment, half again larger, to draw our attention to something--perhaps to a concealed name?"

Bote-swaine => Fs Biaccen R I