Title from half-title
"With a preface, glossary, etc. by Israel Gollancz."--Individual title page
Each vol. has individual title page, printed in red and black; act and scene designations printed in red
"By the kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., and W. Aldis Wright, esq., the text here used is that of the "Cambridge" edition."--Half-title verso
Reprint and edition statements vary
Contents
[v. 1] All's well that ends well -- [v. 2] Anthony and Cleopatra -- [v. 3] As you like it -- [v. 4] Comedy of errors -- [v. 5] Coriolanus -- [v. 6] Cymbeline -- [v. 7] Hamlet -- [v. 8] Julius Caesar -- [v. 9] King Henry IV, part 1 -- [v. 10] King Henry IV, part 2 -- [v. 11] Henry V -- [v. 12] King Henry VI, part 1 -- [v. 13] King Henry VI, Part 2 -- [v. 14] King Henry VI, part 3 -- [v. 15] King Henry VIII -- [v. 16] King John -- [v. 17] King Lear -- [v. 18] King Richard II -- [v. 19] King Richard III -- [v. 20] Love's labour's lost -- [v. 21] Macbeth -- [v. 22] Measure for measure -- [v. 23] Merchant of Venice -- [v. 24] Merry wives of Windsor -- [v. 25] Midsummer night's dream -- [v. 26] Much ado about nothing -- [v. 27] Othello -- [v. 28] Pericles -- [v. 29] Romeo and Juliet -- [v. 30] Taming of the shrew -- [v. 31] Tempest -- [v. 32] Timon of Athens -- [v. 33] Titus Andronicus -- [v. 34] Troilus and Cressida -- [v. 35] Twelfth night -- [v. 36] Two gentlemen of Verona -- [v. 37] Winter's tale -- [v. 38] Rape of Lucrece -- [v. 39] Venus & Adonis -- [v. 40.] Sonnets
Item information about Folger PR2752 1894-1896 copy 2 Sh.Col
Publisher's decorated leather binding; top edge gilt. Small paper copy. Autograph (v. 7): "For the Folger Shakespeare Library from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This set was given by me to my Mother - Sara Delano Roosevelt about 1900 - and was in her room at Hyde Park until her death in 1941, when it came back to me. -- 1943, FDR." Inscription (v. 31): "For the Folger Shakespeare Library from Franklin D. Roosevelt 1943."
Also known as
Uniform title: Works. 1894. J.M. Dent and Co
Related names
author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Gollancz, Israel, 1864-1930
former owner: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
former owner: Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 1854-1941
former owner: Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
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