Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's plays : with his life : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 525
Westfall, A. Van R. American Shakespeare criticism: p. [128]-136
Folger bibliographic ID: 263904
Modern Lang. Assn. of Amer. Publications, XXII: p. 661-666
Folger call number: PR2752 1847c copy 2 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 349461
Accession Number: cs197

General notes

The first American illustrated Shakespeare. Complete sets of this, the only printing, are scarce due to destruction of the plates in Harper's 1853 fire (See Westfall) Issued in parts, most with wrappers having title: Harper's illuminated and illustrated Shakespeare. The fascicles, though numbered, were not intended to be bound in numerical order. The order prescribed by the publisher and printed in the table of contents (v. 1.p. [iii]) is that followed in the LC copy; Verplanck, however, urged (v. 1, p. xiii) subscribers to arrange the plays--within the three groups, Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies--in the order of their composition. To this end, the plays are each separately paged, without continuous pagination The text is based on Collier's; illustrations from Knight's pictorial edition. (See Jaggard) Portions of PR2752 1847c copy 1 Sh.Col. also available as a digital reproduction Each volume with an added, illustrated title page With Some account of the life of William Shakespeare, written by Rowe, and A life of William Shakespeare, abridged from Collier

Contents

v. 1. Histories -- v. 2. Comedies -- v. 3. Tragedies

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Shakespeare in American Life (catalog entry 64) (Copy 1 Vol. 1)

Item information about Folger PR2752 1847c copy 2 Sh.Col

Half bound in calf, with marbled boards, edges, and endpapers. Newspaper clippings laid and pasted in

Uniform title: Plays. 1847. Harper & Bros
Extended title: Shakespeare's plays : with his life : illustrated with many hundred wood-cuts / executed by H.W. Hewet, after designs by Kenny Meadows, Harvey, and others ; edited by Gulian C. Verplanck ; with critical introductions, notes, etc., original and selected ; in three volumes
Alternate titles: Illustrated Shakespeare

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Verplanck, Gulian C. (Gulian Crommelin), 1786-1870
printmaker: Hewet, Henry W., (Henry W.), active 1840-1850
associated with: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
associated with: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
illustrator: Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874
illustrator: Harvey, William, 1796-1866
former owner: Sprague, William B. (William Buell), 1795-1876
signer: Potter, Mary M., d. not before 1847
former owner: Joyce, John, d. not before 1847
former owner: Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954
publisher: Harper & Brothers