Shakespeare, William. Shakspeare's dramatic works : with a life of the author, and a selection of notes, critical, historical and explanatory

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Creator

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Date

1830

Location

London, England
Great Britain

Media format

Printed text

Extent

8 v.

Language

English

Size

22 cm

Reference IDs

Folger bibliographic ID: 302430
Folger call number: PR2752 1830c copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 421582
Accession Number: No case or acc. number present

Notes

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Engravings in alternately lettered: J. Swaine sc.; Engraved by E. Scriven. Note: the engravings might be bound in various volumes, or all in v. 1

v. 1. Life of Shakspeare. Shakspeare's will. Poems on Shakspeare. Rowe's preface. Pope's preface. Dr. Johnson's preface. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 2. Twelfth-night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's dream ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew ; Winter's tale -- v. 4. Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1 -- v. 5. King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI -- v. 6. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus -- v. 7. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles -- v. 8. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello ; Poems of Shakspeare. Venus and Adonis ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Passionate pilgrim ; Lover's complaint

Item information about Folger PR2752 1830c copy 1 Sh.Col

Dedication leaf and editorial advertisement bound in v. 2. Bookplate: Shakespeare Library, Warwick Castle. Diced calf binding with leather spine labes and marbled endpapers and edges

Also known as

Uniform title: Works. 1830. J.F. Dove
Extended title: Shakspeare's dramatic works : with a life of the author, and a selection of notes, critical, historical and explanatory / by the Rev. W. Harness, A. M., of Christ's College, Cambridge ; to which are added the author's poems ; in eight volumes
Alternate titles: Shakespeare's dramatic works

Related names

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Harness, William, 1790-1869
associated with: Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
associated with: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
engraver: Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841
engraver: Swaine, John, 1775 or 1776-1860
printer: Dove, John Fowler
former owner: Waugh, Edwin, 1817-1890
former owner: Hibbert, James, d. not before 1830
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library