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| Genre/Form: | Printed books Cancellation (Publishing) |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays of William Shakspeare. London : 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, MDCCLXXXV [1785] (OCoLC)940092638 |
| Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Shakespeare; Nicholas Rowe; Thomas Hanmer, Sir; Alexander Pope; Theobald, Mr.; William Warburton; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens; Edmond Malone; Isaac Reed; Charles Bathurst |
| OCLC Number: | 4550375 |
| Notes: | 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. |
| Description: | 10 v. : ill., music, ports. (engravings, woodcuts) ; 22 cm. (8vo) |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Other Titles: | Plays. |
| Responsibility: | by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. |
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