Plays

Folger bibliographic ID: 174468
ESTC number: T138601
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Folger holdings ID: 348598

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

The first of two 1765 editions with different settings of type; in this edition Corbet is listed as the second bookseller, Johnson's preface is unpaged, and other prefatory matter paged [i]-ciii Contains the plays only Vol. 1 with a general title page. Volumes 1-8 with dated volume title pages. Volumes 3-8 with volume divisional-titles reading: "the plays of William Shakespeare". All plays with a half-title Engraved frontispiece lettered: G. Vertue sculpsit Vol. 1 with the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, and Warburton, and Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe. Vol. 8 with an appendix Not in Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography Also available as a digital reproduction

Contents

v. 1. Tempest ; Midsummer night's dream ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Measure for measure ; Merchant of Venice -- v. 2. As you like it ; Love's labour's lost ; Winter's tale ; Twelfth-night ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 3. Taming of the shrew ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; All's well that ends well ; King John -- v. 4. King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 ; King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1 -- v. 5. King Henry VI, part 2 ; King Henry VI, part 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. 1765
Extended title: The plays of William Shakespeare : in eight volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added notes / by Sam. Johnson

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Hanmer, Thomas, Sir, 1677-1746
associated with: Theobald, Mr. (Lewis), 1688-1744
associated with: Warburton, William, 1698-1779
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
bookseller: Corbet, Charles, Sir, 1734-1808
bookseller: Woodfall, H. (Henry), -1767
bookseller: Rivington, John, 1720-1792
bookseller: Baldwin, Richard, 1724-1770
bookseller: Johnston, W. (William), -1804
bookseller: Caslon, Thomas, -1783
bookseller: Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784
printmaker: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
annotator: Warburton, William, 1698-1779
signer: Carson, William, active 18th century
former owner: Sewell, Thomas, active 18th century
former owner: Schweizer, Raymond J., active 1925
former owner: Wood, Willoughby, -1807
inscriber: Wood, Charles Thorold, 1777-
former owner: Wood, Willoughby, active 19th century
former owner: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934
former owner: Hammond, William, active 18th century
former owner: Day, Alfred
former owner: Congreve, Richard, Revd.
bookseller: J. and R. Tonson
bookseller: Hawes, Clarke and Collins
bookseller: Executors of B. Dodd (London, England)
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library