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Great Britain
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Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 264217
Folger call number: PR2752 1851l copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 349844
Accession Number: cs59
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General notes
Title-pages with each play engraved by: C. Gray, J. Bastin, J. Jackson, W.T. Green, T. Williams, G. Dalziel, and A.J. Mason Includes an additional volume entitled Studies of Shakspere : introductory volume, containing a history of opinion on the writings of Shakespeare : with the chronology of his plays. This unnumbered volume and the poems are differently placed in different sets, and sometimes wanting. (See Jaggard)
Contents
v. 1. Two gentlemen of Verona ; Comedy of errors ; Love's labour's lost ; All's well that ends well -- v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Taming of the shrew ; Merchant of Venice ; Much ado about nothing -- v. 3. Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; As you like it ; Measure for measure -- v. 4. Winter's tale ; Tempest ; King John ; King Richard II -- v. 5. King Henry IV ; Henry V -- v. 6. King Henry VI ; King Richard III -- v. 7. King Henry VIII ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet -- v. 8. Cymbeline ; Othello ; King Lear -- v. 9. Macbeth ; Timon of Athens ; Troilus and Cressida ; Pericles -- v. 10. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Titus Andronicus -- [v. 11] Studies of Shakspere : an introductory volume -- [v. 12] Poems. Facts connected with the Life and writings of William Shakspere
Item information about Folger PR2752 1851l copy 1 Sh.Col
Publisher's cloth binding, with gold decoration; gilt edges
Also known as
Alternate titles: Knight's cabinet edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Related names
associated with: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
printmaker: Dalziel, George, 1815-1902
associated with: Gray, Cecil, 1895-1951Printmaker
printmaker: Green, W. T., active 1837-1872
printmaker: Jackson, John, 1801-1848
printmaker: Mason, Abraham John, 1794-1858
printmaker: Williams, Thomas, approximately 1800-