Shakespeare, William. The American Shakespeare : from the original text, carefully collated and compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier, with historical and critical introduction and notes to each play : and a life of the great dramatist

Folger bibliographic ID: 302792
Folger call number: PR2754 3a4 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 422161
Accession Number: 9.16.46

General notes

Frontispiece and other plates dated 1879 Originally issued as 56 semi-monthly parts Paged continuously, with double pagination at foot of pages, the first at center (1468 pages) includes the Preface to [v. 1] and the abridgment of Knight's Life of William Shakespeare; the second paging (1725 pages) under the outside columns includes the introductions to the plays and the notes; there are also two sets of signatures, the first in smaller type in fours, the second, larger, in eights (this latter set begins with "22" at p. 337 or 407 respectively, of the outer pagination)

Contents

[v. 1] Comedies -- [v. 2] Historical plays -- [v. 3] Tragedies ; Poems

Item information about Folger PR2754 3a4 Sh.Col

Half bound in goatskin, with cloth boards and gold lettering; marbled endpapers and edges

Uniform title: Works. 1879. H.J. Johnson
Extended title: The American Shakespeare : from the original text, carefully collated and compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier, with historical and critical introduction and notes to each play : and a life of the great dramatist / by Charles Knight ; illustrated with new and finely executed steel engravings, chiefly portraits in character of celebrated American actors, drawn from life, expressly for this edition

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
associated with: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
associated with: Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
publisher: Henry J. Johnson (Firm)