Plays

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 500
Folger bibliographic ID: 180507
ESTC number: T52791
Folger call number: For access, follow the Linked Resources hyperlink
Folger holdings ID: 348254

Bibliographic format

twelvemo

General notes

Contains the plays only Vol. 1 with a general title page; all volumes with a dated volume title page; all plays with an individual play half-title Vol. 1 with a dedication, a preface, Pope's preface, Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe, Ben Jonson's poem, and a table. Vol. 8 with an index and a glossary Volumes 6 and 7 also available as digital reproductions

Contents

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 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI. part 1 -- v. 5. King Henry VI, parts 2-3 ; 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

Uniform title: Plays. 1747
Extended title: 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 / by Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Warburton, William, 1698-1779
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
bookseller: Owen, Robert, -1747
bookseller: Leathley, Joseph, -1757
bookseller: Faulkner, George, 1699?-1775
bookseller: Crampton, P. (Philip), approximately 1700-1792
bookseller: Bradley, Abraham, active 1729-1783
bookseller: Moore, Thomas, -1751
former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
former owner: Holroyd, Daniel, active 18th century
former owner: Hughes, Mary Emilia, active 1816
bookseller: George and Alexander Ewing
bookseller: W. and J. Smith (Dublin, Ireland)
bookseller: E. and J. Exshaw (Dublin, Ireland)
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library