Shakespeare, William. Complete works of Shakespeare

Folger bibliographic ID: 302536
Folger call number: PR2752 1888a Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421764
Accession Number: cs1043

General notes

Explanatory notes included at back of each volume Frontispiece lettered Illman & Sons. Additional plates engraved by C. Heath, F. Bacon, W. Chevalier, E.J. Portbury, Greatbach, and T.S. Engleheart from works by J.M. Wright, R. Smirke, F.P. Stephanoff, C. Rolls, H. Corbould, and R. Westall

Contents

v. 1. Life of Shakspeare ; Index to the characters ; Glossary ; Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well -- v. 2. Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 ; King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1 -- v. 3. King Henry VI, part 2 ; King Henry VI, part 3 ; King Henry VIII ; King Richard III ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar -- v. 4. Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello ; Poems

Item information about Folger PR2752 1888a Sh.Col

Publisher's decorated cloth binding; top edge gilt

Uniform title: Works. 1888. David McKay
Extended title: Complete works of Shakespeare / with notes by Malone, Steevens, and others ; together with a biography, concordance of familiar passages, index to characters, and a glossary of obsolete terms ; illustrated with twenty-three steel engravings and two photogravures ; in four volumes

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
printmaker: Heath, Charles, 1785-1848
printmaker: Bacon, Frederick, 1803-1887
printmaker: Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866
printmaker: Portbury, E. J., approximately 1795-1885
printmaker: Greatbach, Joseph, 1817-
printmaker: Engleheart, Timothy Stansfield, 1803-1879
illustrator: Wright, John Massey, 1777-1866
illustrator: Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845
illustrator: Stephanoff, Francis Philip, 1788-1860
illustrator: Rolls, Charles, 1800-
illustrator: Corbould, H. (Henry), 1787-1844
illustrator: Westall, Richard, 1765-1836
publisher: David McKay Company
printmaker: Illman & Sons