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Great Britain
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Folger bibliographic ID: 184451
ESTC number: T98170
Folger call number: PR2752 1778 Suppl. 1 copy 5 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 349421
Accession Number: cs177
Notes
Bibliographic format
octavo
General notes
The first edition edited by Edmond Malone (Jaggard, p. 504) Volume 1 with a general title page, a volume divisional title page for the supplement for plays, as well as a divisional title page for poems; v. 2 with a volume title page; both volumes with volume half-title; each poem with a divisional half title Engraved frontispiece lettered: R. Greene del.; engraved portrait of Earl of Southampton unlettered; a couple of woodcuts illustrating editorial notes (v. 1) Volume 1 with Malone's advertisement, errata, directions to the binder, and additional observations, including a reprint of Arthur Brooke's translation of the tragicall hystory of Romeus and Juliet; also with a folded leaf The platt of the secound parte of the seven deadlie sinns (p. 60). Volume 2 with an appendix
Contents
v. 1. Venus and Adonis ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets ; Passionate pilgrim ; Lover's complaint -- v. 2. Pericles ; Locrine ; Sir John Oldcastle ; Lord Cromwell ; London prodigal ; Puritan ; Yorkshire tragedy
Item information about Folger PR2752 1778 Suppl. 1 copy 5 Sh.Col
Volume 1 bound in 2 parts. Manuscript annotations. Extra-illustrated with Shakespeare ports. and other ill., as well as newspaper clippings inserted. With bookseller's description pasted in: "Supplement ... with the Appendix and Second Appendix ... enriched with autograph letters and manuscript notes, by Steevens, Malone, Haslewood, and other commentators of the day." Vol. 1 with Autograph letter signed from Edmond Malone to unidentified recipient, 1810 October 20?; autograph letter unsigned from Edmond Malone to Joseph Haslewood, 1810 October 11; both cataloged separately. George Steevens copy. Half blue goat binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers, and edges gilt; spines labelled Shaksperiana, Malone's Supplement, Appendix, 2nd Appendix. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger
Also known as
Extended title: Supplement to the edition of Shakspeare's plays published in 1778 / by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens ; in two volumes ; containing additional observations by several of the former commentators ; to which are subjoined the genuine poems of the same author, and seven plays that have been ascribed to him ; with notes by the editor and others
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Related names
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703
associated with: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
associated with: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
bookseller: Bathurst, Charles
bookseller: Strahan, William, 1715-1785
bookseller: J., F., and C. Rivington (Firm)
bookseller: Hinton, John, -1781
bookseller: Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791
bookseller: Horsfield, W., active 18th century
bookseller: Owen, W. (William), -1793
bookseller: Johnson, Edward, -1796
bookseller: Crowder, Stanley, -1798
bookseller: White, Benjamin, approximately 1724-1794
bookseller: Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797
bookseller: Dilly, Charles, 1739-1807
bookseller: Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802
bookseller: Lowndes, Thomas, 1719-1784
bookseller: Robson, James, 1733-1806
bookseller: Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799
bookseller: Gardner, Henry Lasher, -1808
bookseller: Nichols, John, 1745-1826
bookseller: Bew, John, -1793
bookseller: Cater, William, active 1759-1787
bookseller: Stuart, William, active 18th century
bookseller: Newbery, Francis, -1780
bookseller: Robinson, George, 1736-1801
bookseller: Baldwin, R. (Robert), 1737-1810
bookseller: Ridley, John, -1782
bookseller: Hayes, Samuel, active 1779-1795
illustrator: Greene, Richard, 1716-1793
former owner: Steevens, George, 1736-1800
signer: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
former owner: Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812
former owner: Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
former owner: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
signer: Knight, Joseph, 1829-1907
former owner: Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913
former owner: Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library