The works of Shakespear : in eight volumes : the genuine text (collated with all the former editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled, being restored from the blunders of the first editors, and the interpolations of the two last : with a comment and notes, critical and explanatory
William Shakespeare (Author), Alexander Pope, William Warburton, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Birt (Bookseller), Thomas Longman (Bookseller), Thomas Shewell (Bookseller), Henry Lintot (Bookseller), Charles Hitch (Bookseller), John Brindley (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, MDCCXLVII. [1747]
Printed for J. and P. Knapton; S. Birt; T. Longman and T. Shewell; H. Lintott; C. Hitch; J. Brindley; J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; R. Wellington; E. New; and B. Dod, London, MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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8 volumes : ports. (engravings) ; 21 cm (8vo)
1066168
v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure
v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Merchant of Venice ; Love's labour's lost ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew
v. 3. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth night ; Comedy of errors ; Winter's tale ; King John
v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV. Part 1 ; King Henry IV. Part 2 ; King Henry V ; King Henry VI. Part 1
v. 5. King Henry VI. Part 2 ; King Henry VI. Part 3 ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 6. King Lear ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus ; Macbeth ; Coriolanus
v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Contains the plays only
Vol. 1 with a general title page; all volumes with a dated volume title page, errata on volume title page verso; all plays with an individual play half-title
Engraved frontispiece plate lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit
Vol. 1 with a preface, Mr. Pope's preface, Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare by Mr. Rowe, and a table. Vol. 8 with an index
Head- and tail-pieces, initials
Errata on title page verso of each vol
Includes index (vol. 8)
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