The works of William Shakespeare : the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions : with the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the early English stage
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Henry R. Cook (Printmaker)
Portraits
8 volumes : portrait ; 22 cm
2920037
v. 1. History of the stage ; The life of Shakespeare, etc. ; The Tempest ; The two gentlemen of Verona ; The merry wives of Windsor
v. 2. Measure for measure ; The comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice
v. 3. As you like it ; The taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night, or, What you will ; The winter's tale
v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V
v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII
v. 6. Troilus and Cressida ; Coriolanus ; Titus Andronicus ; Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens
v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; King Lear ; Othello
v. 8. Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Pericles ; Poems: Venus and Adonis ; Lucrece ; Sonnets ; A lover's complaint ; The passionate Pilgrim
Frontispiece portrait lettered: Engraved by H. Cook
"The issue of this edition commences with vol. 2, on account of vol. 1 containing the biography, history of the stage, &c., "--Publisher's note slip, v.2
Includes glossarial index