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Genre/Form: | Booksellers' advertisements |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays of William Shakspeare. London : Printed for J. Nichols, 1811 (OCoLC)659410164 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Shakespeare; George Steevens |
OCLC Number: | 13875212 |
Notes: | Not to be confused with either of the J. Nichols and Son, [etc.] 1811 Plays of William Shakspeare, in nine or in ten volumes. Printer information from colophon. Each vol. with half-title, vol. title page, and an added engraved vol. title page; each play with a divisional title. Added engraved title pages bear the imprint: "London: Printed for F., C., & J. Rivington, and partners." Each vol. with a frontispiece engraving bearing the same Rivington imprint, lettered: T. Uwins delt., S. Noble sc. Bookseller's advertisements for the Plays of Shakspeare issued in nine and in ten volumes on the back covers of the original printed paper-covered boards; and for Walker's British classics on the final leaves of v. 8. |
Description: | 8 v. : ill. ; 15 cm (12mo) |
Contents: | v. 1. Sketch of the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure -- v. 2. Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it -- v. 3. All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth -- v. 4. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; King Henry V -- v. 5. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 6. King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus -- v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles -- v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello. |
Other Titles: | Plays. Plays of William Shakespeare |
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