The plays of William Shakspeare : in ten volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes
Print Book, English, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
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Printed for C. Bathurst; J. Rivington and Sons; T. Payne and Son; L. Davis; W. Owen; B. White and Son; T. Longman; B. Law; T. Bowles; J. Johnson; C. Dilly; J. Robson; G., G., J., and J. Robinson; T. Cadell; H.L. Gardner; J. Nichols; J. Bew; W. Stuart; R. Baldwin; J. Murray; A. Strahan; T. Vernor; J. Barker; W. Lowndes; S. Hayes; G. and T. Wilkie; Scatcherd and Whitaker; T. and J. Egerton; W. Fox; and E. Newbery, London, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Printed books England London 18th century Specimens
10 v. : ill., music, ports. (engravings, woodcuts) ; 22 cm. (8vo)
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth
v. 5. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV
v. 6. King Henry V ; King Henry VI
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus
v. 8. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus
v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
Edited by Isaac Reed
Volume 1 with a general title page; volumes 2-10 with volume half-titles; each volume with a volume half-title; each play with a divisional title page
Volume 1 with frontispiece portrait lettered: engraved by John Hall from an original picture in the possession of his grace the Duke of Chandos ... March 25th, 1785 by J. Rivington & Partners; head of Shakspeare after Droeshout; head of Shakspeare after Marshall; woodcut of the Globe Theatre; and a facsimile of Shakespeare's handwriting. King Henry IV, part 2 with a folded engraving lettered: Morris dancers, J. Keyse Sherwin sculpsit. Some plays with woodcuts illustrating editorial notes. Twelfth-night with music
Volume 1 preliminaries include the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton; Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe; Shakepeare's will, followed by a tipped-in leaf with a reproduction of Shakespeare's autograph; Granger's catalogue of portraits of Shakespeare; and Malone's Attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written