Shakespeare, William. Mr. William Shakespeare : his comedies, histories, and tragedies : set out by himself in quarto, or by the players, his fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those editions in ten volumes octavo, with an introduction : whereunto will be added, some other volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a body of various readings entire

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 502
Folger bibliographic ID: 174466
ESTC number: T138599
Folger call number: PR2752 1768b copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 177417
Accession Number: cs81

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Editor's dedication signed and dated: "Edward Capell. Nov. 9, 1767." Colophon, v. 10: "From the press of Dryden Leach, in Crane Court; Febr. 23, 1768." Volume 1 with a general title page; each volume with volume title pages; each play with separate divisional half-titles and pagination Engraved portrait in vol. 1 lettered: J. Miller sc Vol. 1 with Poems upon the author and a table. Vol. 10 with corrigenda and bookseller's advertisements Also available as a digital reproduction

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, part 1 ; King Henry IV, part 2 -- v. 6. Henry V ; King Henry VI, part 1 ; King Henry VI, part 2 ; King Henry VI, part 3 -- 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

Item information about Folger PR2752 1768b copy 1 Sh.Col

Bound in calf with gilt-tooled spine and leather spine labels reading "Capell's Shakespeare"; spine labels for volumes 7 and 8 reversed

Uniform title: Plays. 1768. J. and R. Tonson
Extended title: Mr. William Shakespeare : his comedies, histories, and tragedies : set out by himself in quarto, or by the players, his fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those editions in ten volumes octavo, with an introduction : whereunto will be added, some other volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a body of various readings entire

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Capell, Edward, 1713-1781
printer: Leach, Dryden
printmaker: Miller, John, 1715-1790?
former owner: Capell, Edward, 1713-1781
former owner: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
former owner: Garrick, David, 1717-1779
signer: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
former owner: Harrison, John, d. not before 1768
signer: Sanderson, Fr., d. not before 1768
signer: Hall, J. L., d. not before 1768
former owner: Everitt, C. H., Captain, Royal Navy
former owner: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
signer: Jolley, Thomas
signer: Proctor, G. H., active 1840
signer: Boyle, E. M., active 1898
former owner: McMillan, James, 1838-1902
former owner: Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913
former owner: Ingleby, Holcombe, 1854-1926
former owner: Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930
former owner: Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936
signer: Landers, J. E., active 1876
bookseller: J. and R. Tonson
associated name: Kerr & Richardson
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library
former owner: University of Michigan. Library