Shakespeare, William. The dramatic works of Shakspeare : in six volumes : with notes

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Creator

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Date

MDCCLXXXVI-[1794?] [1786-1794?]

Location

Oxford
Birmingham, England
Great Britain

Media format

Printed text

Extent

6 v.

Language

English

Size

23 cm

Reference IDs

Jaggard, W. Shakespeare bibliography: p. 505
Folger bibliographic ID: 264051
ESTC number: T163208
Folger call number: PR2752 1786 copy 1 Sh.Col
Folger holdings ID: 349635
Accession Number: cs41

Notes

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Contains the plays only Dates follow "Clarendon Press" on volume title-page imprints of volumes 1-4. Volumes 4-6 imprints lacking names of Mess. Prince, and C. Selwin Rann. Volumes 5-6 imprints begin "Oxford: sold by J. Cooke." Vol. 1-4 are dated, respectively, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1791; while v. 5 and 6 are undated. Jaggard suggests a terminal date of 1794 All volumes with volume title-pages and half-titles; all plays with divisional titles Errata in v. 1

v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale -- v. 3. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV -- v. 4. Henry V ; King Henry VI ; King Richard III ; King Henry VIII -- v. 5. Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Romeo and Juliet -- v. 6. King Lear ; Macbeth ; Hamlet ; Othello

Item information about Folger PR2752 1786 copy 1 Sh.Col

Vol. 5 v.t.p. with ink manuscript date "MDCCLXXXVI" [1786]. Vols. 4 and 6 bound in half calf and blue paper boards with red and black spine labels; v. 1-3, 5 in modern quarter goatskin binding with paste-paper boards, by Johs. Hyltoft, with his description bound in, signed "April 2, 1974, Lilly Stone." Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger

Also known as

Uniform title: Plays. 1786. Clarendon Press
Extended title: The dramatic works of Shakspeare : in six volumes : with notes / by Joseph Rann, A.M., Vicar of St. Trinity, in Coventry
Alternate titles: Dramatic works of Shakespeare

Related names

author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Rann, Joseph, 1732 or 1733-1811
bookseller: Prince, Daniel, approximately 1711-1796
bookseller: Cooke, Joshua, active 1772-1804
bookseller: Rivington, Charles, 1754-1831
former owner: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
binder: Riviere, Robert, 1808-1882
former owner: Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913
binder: Hyltoft, Johannes
printer: Oxford University Press